Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei 🇧🇳, home to about 297,000 people, and you would surface in Brazil 🇧🇷, at 4.8833° S, 65.0667° W. That puts Bandar Seri Begawan among the 66 cities on this list — out of 391 — whose antipode is dry land rather than water.
| City | Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei 🇧🇳 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 4.8833° N, 114.9333° E |
| Antipode coordinates | 4.8833° S, 65.0667° W |
| What is there | Brazil 🇧🇷 |
| Nearest town or city | Porto Velho, Brazil — 449 km (279 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Bandar Seri Begawan's antipode falls on dry land, inside Brazil 🇧🇷. The closest town or city to that point is Porto Velho, Brazil, about 449 km (279 miles) away.
2 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Bandar Seri Begawan.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (4.8833° N becomes 4.8833° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (114.9333° E becomes 65.0667° W). More on how antipodes work.
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