Dig straight down from the middle of the Baía de Marajó 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the North Pacific Ocean 🌊, off the coast of Palau 🇵🇼. Below are the Baía de Marajó's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 9,077 km² (3,505 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Brazil 🇧🇷 |
| Also written | Bahía de Marajó (es) · Baía de Marajó (fr) · 马拉若湾 (zh) · خليج ماراجو (ar) · залив Мараджо (ru) · マラジョー湾 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Baía de Marajó, that point sits at 1.4834° N, 131.3574° E. The nearest coast is Palau 🇵🇼, roughly 173 km (107 miles) south.
The closest settlement of any size is Ternate, Indonesia, about 451 km (280 miles) from the point.
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