Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Beijing, China 🇨🇳, home to about 11.1 million people, and you would surface in Argentina 🇦🇷, at 39.9308° S, 63.6137° W. That puts Beijing among the 66 cities on this list — out of 391 — whose antipode is dry land rather than water.
| City | Beijing, China 🇨🇳 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 39.9308° N, 116.3863° E |
| Antipode coordinates | 39.9308° S, 63.6137° W |
| What is there | Argentina 🇦🇷 |
| Nearest town or city | Bahía Blanca, Argentina — 176 km (109 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Beijing's antipode falls on dry land, inside Argentina 🇦🇷. The closest town or city to that point is Bahía Blanca, Argentina, about 176 km (109 miles) away.
35 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Beijing; the 10 largest are shown.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (39.9308° N becomes 39.9308° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (116.3863° E becomes 63.6137° W). More on how antipodes work.
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