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Dates Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Dates" has been searched for 9,464 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 29,448,040 miles!

This means that the average distance is 3,112 miles - that's 24% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 934 kg CO2 by plane, 853 kg CO2 by car, or 174 kg CO2 by train.

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
Egypt 1,260
Saudi Arabia 1,225
Iraq 696
Israel 666
Tunisia 591
United Arab Emirates 504
Iran 474
United States 387
Algeria 331
Türkiye 331
Morocco 214
Bangladesh 206
Jordan 205
Pakistan 187
Afghanistan 173
Mexico 127
Oman 94
Australia 94
India 93

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