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The most remote place from the ocean is in China

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If you are intensely desperate to be as far away from the ocean as physically possible, you must travel to this obscure desert coordinate in Xinjiang, where you will be an agonizing 1,600 miles from any actual coastline.

The most remote place from the ocean is in China
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