Comment by wolverine876

EDIT (too late to edit parent):

This screenshot, from an article linked below, shows what I'm talking about. The blacked out parts next to "Portugal", "Germany", and "United States" cover publicly routable IP addresses (afaik):

https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/forwarding-tor-hidden-services...

Also, note that I had it backward in the parent: The traffic first goes through publicly routable IPs, then through Tor relays.