The three countries closest to Australia:

Entity types can also be specified with Entity head:

Give countries whose closest point to Germany is closer than 100 kilometers:

Find entities that cover a particular point:

Return famous buildings within one of those extended regions:

The mountain or volcano closest to your location:

The US state other than California closest to San Francisco:

The country whose center is closest to Paris:

With the default variant "PrincipalArea", Paris is at zero distance from France:

The border of the continental United States to which the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, is closest:

Return the value corresponding to the border entity closest to Denver, Colorado:

An equivalent syntax:

The closest of several points to your current location:

The position in a list of the point closest to Chicago:

Using explicit labels:

Determine whether Germany is closest to a member of OPEC, the Baltic states or the British Commonwealth:

Determine to which of the following city pairs Greece is closest:

GeoNearest with historical entities returns the closest entities that correspond to the same time period:

Use Dated with historical entities to specify a particular date or interval of dates:

Using Dated in the first argument gives results indicating the time of closest approach:

With a non-historical location, the search is performed geographically, regardless of dates:

Specifying date information for the location will give results that correspond to those dates:

Check that the dates correspond to years between 1750 and 1800:

By default, distances are measured from the boundaries of extended regions:

With DistanceFunction->"Center", distance from the center of the entity is used: