Dig straight down from the middle of the Arafura Sea 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊, off the coast of Brazil 🇧🇷. Below are the Arafura Sea's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 727,041 km² (280,712 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Indonesia 🇮🇩 · Australia 🇦🇺 · Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 |
| Also written | mar de Arafura (es) · mer d'Arafura (fr) · 阿拉弗拉海 (zh) · بحر آرافورا (ar) · Арафурское море (ru) · アラフラ海 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Arafura Sea, that point sits at 7.7536° N, 45.2869° W. The nearest coast is Brazil 🇧🇷, roughly 772 km (480 miles) north-east.
The closest settlement of any size is Cayenne, France, about 839 km (521 miles) from the point.
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