How much distance did the magic carpet ride cover?

In the scene: A Whole New World & Aladdin and Jasmine's firs kiss you'll see them travel to the next cities:

In this order:

• Start in Bagdad (Agrabah)
• First city: Caïro
• Second city: Athene (Olympus)
• Third city: China
• Back to Bagdad (Agrabah)

So in miles:

• From Bagdad to Caïro it's: 804.377 miles.
• From Caïro to Athene's it's: 856.443 miles.
• From Athene to China it's: 5968.128 miles.
• From China back to Bagdad it's: 3357.658 miles.

Total of 9325,786 miles, which is 15008.40 km. So as you say it would be over a time of ' +- 8 hours'. They would fly at a speed of 1876.05 km per hour.

Then again Andrew Martin his answer is correct too, we are never sure of what places they visited and if you look at the last scene where Aladdin kisses Jasmine, they stayed in China for 'X' amount of time. So the time above is only calculated for if they would fly all night without stopping. Andrew's right, it's an animated, fun film for a reason! :)

We don't know.

I assume you are referring to Disney's Aladdin. The scene in question is a montage. We're not shown every place they went to, and the passage of time between the areas is thus very difficult to gauge.

MoviePilot did remark:

While Aladdin and Jasmine take their romantic ride together they somehow manage to travel from Cairo to Athens in under one second. That's around 1100 kilometers!! Travelling that far at such speed would apply around 99 million newtons of force!

So...even if Aladdin and Jasmine could manage to hold onto the carpet, their skin should have been torn from their bones. Hmm, suddenly that's not sounding so romantic...

So, it's basically impossible to gauge their total distance travelled and their overall ground speed (which, as the analysis above shows, is certainly Physics-defying).

Ultimately it's an animated, fun film and this is magic - so the realism was irrelevant to Disney and wasn't focussed on.