Which Country Is Closest to Space? 🚀 Can Everest Answer 🌋

Have you ever wondered which country is actually closest to space? 🌍 At first, it sounds simple - Mount Everest should win this title, right? Standing at nearly 9,000 meters above sea level, it's the highest point on our planet, sitting right on the border between Nepal 🇳🇵 and China 🇨🇳 It might seem like these two countries are the closest to space at the same time… but that's not quite true. The reason lies in the shape of our planet. Earth isn't a perfect sphere 🌐 it's slightly flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator due to its rotation. This makes the equatorial radius about 21 kilometers larger than the polar one And right on that line stands Mount Chimborazo 🌋 in Ecuador 🇪🇨 a magnificent volcano rising over 6,000 meters above sea level. While it's not the tallest mountain by elevation, its summit is the farthest point from the center of the Earth, even beating Everest by around 2 kilometers! So even though Everest is higher from sea level, the point on our planet that's truly closest to outer space… is in Ecuador 🌎