How many kilometers does the Tour de France have? Let's compare with the Great Wall of China and Chile

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The Tour de France, one of the three Grand Tours of the cycling world (along with the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), begins on Friday, July 1.

The 2022 edition will feature 22 teams, which will start from Copenhagen and end on Sunday, July 24, in the final classic on the Champs-Elysées, in Paris.

The cyclists will have thousands of kilometers ahead of them in the 21 stages of the race.

Specifically, the 2022 Tour de France stretches over

.

Of the 21 stages, the longest are 6 (medium mountain) and 7 (mountain), each with 219.9 km.

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And, speaking of distances, how much is 3,000 kilometers?

We have the notion that it is a lot, but it is certainly something difficult to imagine.

To make things easier, here we leave you some comparisons to be able to dimension the extension of the Tour de France.

The Great Wall of China, Chile and more comparisons with the Tour de France

- The entire

is very, very, very long: more than 21,000 kilometers.

However, if we just take the main stage, it's a very similar distance to the competition:

, some 110km longer than the 2022 Tour de France course.

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- A little wider, but still similar, is the straight-line distance between

.

According to Google Maps, this route in the United States is

.

- The Great Barrier Reef, in Australia, is a colossal wonder of nature.

Despite its magnitude, it is smaller than the Tour de France route, since it extends over

.

- Chile is one of the longest and thinnest countries in the world: its length is

.

Although it is above the Tour de France by 950 km, it is incredible to think that the cyclists in this race are preparing to cover almost the entire length of this South American country.

- The 2022 Tour de France is practically half the length of the Nile River, which holds the record for the longest river in the world thanks to its

.

Other comparisons

- The longest Tour de France in history was in 1926 and covered a distance of

;

that is, more than 2,395 km higher than this year's route.

- Also in 1926, the longest path traveled by a tornado was recorded.

It was in Illinois and covered 352 km, which is equivalent to one ninth of the 2022 Tour de France.

- Undersea cables help bring power and the internet to the world, and boy are there some gigantic ones.

One running from Norway to the Netherlands held the record for the world's longest underwater power cable.

It stretches over

, almost a sixth of the cycle race.

- The individual time trial of stage 20 in the 2022 Tour de France has a distance of 40.7 km.

This is almost 8 km longer than the world's longest continuous cycle path, which is in Qatar and spans

.

- Finally, an unusual comparison.

If we put together the two individual time trials that the 2022 Tour de France has (stages 1 and 20), we arrive at 53.9 km.

This distance falls short of the record set in Romania in 2014, when they made the world's largest sausage, which was

long .

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