Longest telephone cable
Who
FLAG (Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe)
What
27000 kilometre(s)
Where
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The worlds longest submarine telephone cable is FLAG (Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe), which runs for 27,000 km 16,800 miles from Japan to the United Kingdom. It links three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia) and 11 countries, and can support 600,000 simultaneous telephone calls.