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Try Lisbon to Oulu: 4750km. I also explained why the land area is irrelevant when we talk about distances. If you're looking for a distance even closer to New York — Chicago (1271km) I could offer Vienna — Paris (1235km) which is also served by NightJet. Driving for one more hour doesn't really matter while you're asleep.
You want to include Scandinavia, well if I include Alaska it's ~5k miles from Miami to Anchorage. Point still stands its a wild comment to make.
You're right, that's a wild comment trying to exclude Scandinavia from Europe.
Why wouldn't I want to include Scandinavia. It's part of mainland Europe, reachable by train from Portugal without ever crossing an EU external border. As opposed to Alaska which is not part of the mainland US. I didn't include Alaska for the same reason I didn't include Hawaii, Greenland or the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
Btw. Stockholm alone has more inhabitants than all of Alaska.