Dig straight down from the middle of the Bahía de Campeche 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the Indian Ocean 🌊, off the coast of Indian Ocean Territories 🇦🇺. Below are the Bahía de Campeche's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 158,528 km² (61,208 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Mexico 🇲🇽 |
| Also written | Golfo de Campeche (es) · baie de Campêche (fr) · 坎佩切湾 (zh) · خليج كامبيشي (ar) · Кампече (ru) · カンペチェ湾 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Bahía de Campeche, that point sits at 19.6485° S, 86.4524° E. The nearest coast is Indian Ocean Territories 🇦🇺, roughly 1,386 km (861 miles) south-west.
The closest settlement of any size is Padang, Indonesia, about 2,571 km (1,598 miles) from the point.
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