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2,688 km
Near Point Nemo, astronauts can be the closest other people when a crewed spacecraft passes sufficiently nearby and no ship or aircraft is closer. This is an orbital-geometry possibility, not a permanent condition or an established frequency.
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.