Dig straight down from the middle of the Bab el Mandeb 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the South Pacific Ocean 🌊, off the coast of French Polynesia 🇵🇫. Below are the Bab el Mandeb's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 61 km² (24 sq mi) |
|---|---|
| Bordering countries | Yemen 🇾🇪 · Djibouti 🇩🇯 · Eritrea 🇪🇷 |
| Also written | Bab el-Mandeb (es) · Bab-el-Mandeb (fr) · 曼德海峡 (zh) · باب المندب (ar) · Баб-эль-Мандебский пролив (ru) · バブ・エル・マンデブ海峡 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Bab el Mandeb, that point sits at 12.6277° S, 136.0854° W. The nearest coast is French Polynesia 🇵🇫, roughly 365 km (227 miles) south-east.
The closest settlement of any size is Papeete, French Polynesia, about 1,546 km (961 miles) from the point.
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