'Obama circled the globe 23 times': Interactive map shows how the outgoing president logged almost 570,000 miles on Air Force One for a total of 156 trips abroad - still short of Bill Clinton's 210 foreign visits
Mapping experts at Esri UK show flight path taken by Air Force One during Obama's eight-year presidency
Data used in map was compiled by the State Department
Obama is the third-most traveled president in US history, trailing Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, is the fourth most-traveled president, having made 77 trips abroad
By Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com
Published: 12:20 EST, 13 January 2017 | Updated: 13:26 EST, 13 January 2017
Talk about racking up frequent flyer miles.
With Barack Obama set to leave the Oval Office, he can look back on eight years of international jet-setting on Air Force One, which took him a total of approximately 569,480 miles.
That is roughly the equivalent of traveling around the globe 23 times.
These calculations were reached by mapping experts with Esri UK, a company that specializes in location data using geographic information systems software known as ArcGIS.
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