The long distance Cup: World Cup will have venues 4,500 km away from each other; MAPS

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The 2026 World Cup will have the greatest distance between host cities in the history of the tournament. The World Cup, which starts on June 11th, will be played for the first time in three different countries: Canada, Mexico and the United States.
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The most distant venues for this year's World Cup are Vancouver, in Canada, and Miami, in the United States. The two cities are approximately 4,500 kilometers apart as the crow flies. Manaus, in fact, is closer to Miami than Vancouver.
The great distances will directly impact the teams, who will need to make long journeys during the group stage.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina team will be the one that will travel the most in the group stage: more than 5,000 kilometers between the first three games.
Brazil will travel around 1,760 kilometers in the first stage. The distance is greater than that of the French and Argentine teams, which will travel less than 800 kilometers.
The Egyptian team will be the one that will travel the least in the group stage: around 380 kilometers.
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This time, the Cup will have games spread across 16 cities. The greatest distance between venues in the current edition surpasses the record recorded in the 1994 World Cup. At the time, the United States also hosted the tournament.
Brazil appears twice among the tournaments with the greatest distances between venues:
In 2014, Fortaleza and Porto Alegre were separated by around 3,200 thousand kilometers - a distance slightly greater than that between the capital of Rio Grande do Sul and Manaus.
In 1950, the distance between Recife and Porto Alegre was almost 3,000 kilometers.
The 2022 World Cup, in Qatar, was at the opposite extreme. The tournament's most distant venues were separated by less than 70 kilometers.
g1 separated the 8 greatest distances between host cities in the history of the World Cups. See below the countries and where the stadiums used in each edition are or were.
2026 World Cup
Map shows the venues for the 2026 World Cup
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1994 World Cup
The 1994 World Cup in distance
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2014 World Cup
The distances of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil
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4⃣ 1950 World Cup
The map of the 1950 World Cup in Brazil
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5⃣ 2018 World Cup
Map of the Russian Cup in 2018
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6⃣ 1962 World Cup
World Cup of Chile, in 1962, had only four host cities
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7⃣ 2002 World Cup
Japan and South Korea Cup, in 2002, had stadiums spread across 20 cities
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8⃣ 2010 World Cup
In 2010, cities in the South African Cup had a maximum distance of 1,550 km
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