Phileas Fogg's Route: The Cities of "Around the World in Eighty Days"

Jules Verne's classic adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days charts a precise westward circumnavigation. Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout traverse continents and oceans, touching down in these key cities:

• London – Departure and return point, the heart of the British Empire
• Paris – Brief stop in the French capital
• Turin – Italian alpine city, gateway to the Mont Cenis tunnel
• Brindisi (Brundisium) – Adriatic port for the steamer to Suez
• Suez – Egyptian entry to the newly opened Suez Canal
• Aden – British coaling station in Yemen
• Bombay (Mumbai) – Major Indian port under British rule
• Calcutta (Kolkata) – Capital of British India
• Singapore – Strategic Strait of Malacca hub
• Hong Kong – British colony and China trade gateway
• Yokohama – Japan's treaty port near Tokyo
• San Francisco – Pacific coast terminus of the transcontinental railroad
• New York City – Atlantic terminus, then transatlantic steamer
• Liverpool – English port, final leg to London by rail

The route showcases 1870s global transportation: steamships, railways, and the Suez Canal—technologies that made an 80-day circumnavigation barely plausible.