Badge for exchange Pokémon

I have received my first badge of this type…

:scream::scream::scream::scream:

my first trade was a 9.880km corpish a fellow teammate caught on vacation.

Now focusing on friends in far away places for eggs and to trade those.

what does that even mean?

My first trade was a 8,207 mile Girafarig from a cousin who lives in Chicago