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Hawaii is carried northwest by the Pacific Plate, broadly in the direction of Japan, at a few inches per year. That plate speed is not an exact annual reduction in distance to every location in Japan.
12
France has the most time zones when its overseas territories are included, commonly counted as 12 standard UTC offsets. Totals of 13 require an explanation of seasonal clock changes or Antarctic territorial claims.
60%
Canada has more than half of the lakes in the HydroLAKES inventory, whose minimum mapped lake area is 10 hectares. That does not establish that Canada contains most of every pond and lake on Earth.