Dig straight down from the middle of the Bismarck Sea 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊, off the coast of Brazil 🇧🇷. Below are the Bismarck Sea's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 330,974 km² (127,790 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 |
| Also written | mar de Bismarck (es) · mer de Bismarck (fr) · 俾斯麦海 (zh) · بحر بيسمارك (ar) · Новогвинейское море (ru) · ビスマルク海 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Bismarck Sea, that point sits at 3.6827° N, 31.8813° W. The nearest coast is Brazil 🇧🇷, roughly 1,061 km (659 miles) north-east.
The closest settlement of any size is Fortaleza, Brazil, about 1,112 km (691 miles) from the point.
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