Santiago

Chile

Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. Located in the Chilean Central Valley within the Santiago Basin, between the Andes to the east and the Chilean Coastal Range to the west, it anchors the Santiago Metropolitan Region and its conurbation of Greater Santiago, which comprises more than forty communes and concentrates over a third of the national population and around 45% of Chile's…

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Country: Chile
Population: 5,720,000
Latitude: 33.45° S
Longitude: 70.67° O

Which way is Santiago from…

From Paris, Santiago lies at 236° to the south-west, 11,649 km as the crow flies.

Paris	236° south-west	11,649 km
London	235° south-west	11,673 km
New York	177° south	8,253 km
Madrid	231° south-west	10,702 km
Rome	240° south-west	11,910 km
Montreal	178° south	8,784 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	224° south-west	11,704 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

From Saint-Denis, on Réunion Island, a flat map would put Santiago west, at 264°; the compass says 224°, south-west, because the shortest route passes south of Africa and then crosses the South Atlantic. From London, aim south-west, at 235°, 11,673 km away, over Brazil; the map would say 216°. And its antipode falls in China, 956 km from Beijing.