Distance to you, Hong Kong!

To all of you reading this from Hong Kong, i am now more than 8900 KMs away from you. If i am loud enough, i scream HELLO HONG KONG PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 恭喜發財!!!!!! then it will take 26245 seconds for the sound to travel to you. that means 7 hours and 17 minutes for you to hear that. it's that far.

Don't look in the map. it's longer. i used the google earth to calculate which is shorter on the globe on the straight line. This is calculated on sea level on an imaginery straight line, which is not possible. because there are mountains. between us, there are exactly:

1) Hong Kong 香港
2) China 中國
3) Kazakstan 卡薩克斯坦
4) Russia 俄羅斯
5) Latvia 拉脫維亞
6) Lithuania 立陶苑
7) Baltic Sea 波羅的海
8) Germany 德國

Quite a lot of distance, isn't it? thank you Internet!