The southern most capital in Africa is cape town. The games are being played in Morocco, with the most northerly stadia used Tangiers.
Cape town to Tangiers is 11,530km. Which is 7164.4 miles. As the crow flies, Lands end to John O Groats is ~600miles. So almost 12 times the distance of the length of the uk. It's also worth noting that some of that journey is through countries currently at war.
7k miles from tangiers is also to new York and back and to Australia's east coast
