The distance from Jacksonville, Florida to Los Angeles, California is about 3888 km. The earth's circumference is about 40 000 km (source), so the US spans about 10% of that, roughly :)

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You do know that on spheres there's more circumference angles than just east to west, right? Any direction also has a circumference on the surface of the Earth.

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