Puzzle ZNHQ

My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault.

I listed five countries, and how far away each was from England, and here are the results:
Australia     500 miles
Peru        8,000 miles
India       4,500 miles
Scotland    9,500 miles
France      _,___ miles

Can you work out the distance to France?

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Answer
3,000 miles.

Take the alphabetic position of the first letter, halve, and then multiply by 1000.

You could also multiply by 500 instead.

Double-Checking
F is the 6th letter of the alphabet, halving gives 3, multiplying by 1000 gives 6000.

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