'Pokémon GO': There's An Easier Way To Trade Pokémon Caught 10,000 KM Apart, And Get The Reward

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It's World Tourism Day here in Pokémon GO, a thing I just learned existed. Overall it's a bit of an underwhelming event for everyone outside of Europe, where Mime Jr. has been released for the first time. Mostly we've got some egg bonuses and a whole bunch of Zangoose and Seviper. There's one field research task, however, that might have some trainers stumped: trade Pokémon caught 10,000km apart. It's a tough one for most people that aren't hopping around the world on a constant basis, so you might be a little confused as to how a normal player can get this done. Luckily, there's a way to do it that doesn't involve having one party travel halfway around the world.

The simplest way is, naturally, just to find someone with a Pokémon they caught on the other side of the globe. The circumference of the Earth is 40,075 kilometers, so in order to fill this requirement, you're going to need to skip over an ocean pretty much no matter where you are. You can just barely cover it if you're working with the entire continent of Eurasia: Lisbon to Shanghai is 10,711 kilometers. Over here in the Western Hemisphere you'd need to go North/South: Anchorage to Tierra Del Fuego is 14617 kilometers, which gives you a bit of wiggle room on both sides. I got these numbers with this tool here, which you can use to test things for yourself.

But here's the thing: you don't need to go to a place to get a Pokémon from a place. If you get a gift with an egg from someone, the Pokémon that hatches out of the egg will be registered as being from the place the gift was originally collected. So all you need to do is make an international friend, get an egg, and presto: you've got a Pokémon from where that person is from. I've got someone in Japan that gives me some, and that's more than far enough to get the job done. For our United States readers, I'd recommend Australia because you can search for it without worrying about language barriers. I was able to test this with a hatch from an Australian egg and everything worked out.

Looking around on social media can probably get you an international friend fairly easily, particularly because people on the other side of the globe are also trying to fill this, and because they might want high kilometer trades for the Pilot medal. There are plenty of websites for exchanging friend codes, and sometimes people also list their locations alongside them. It's been a while since I had to fill out my friend list, but this one here lets you search by location.

If you do this, you'll get the somewhat underwhelming reward: a Zangoose or a Seviper, whichever is not currently spawning around you. These have switched locations before, so it's not like they're hugely rare on either side of the world. But if you missed the rotation before, this will help you fill that out.