Dig straight down from the middle of the Caribbean Sea 🌊 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 Caribbean Sea's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 2,828,600 km² (1,092,128 sq mi) |
|---|---|
| Bordering countries | Venezuela 🇻🇪 · Cuba 🇨🇺 · Colombia 🇨🇴 · Haiti 🇭🇹 · Honduras 🇭🇳 · Panama 🇵🇦 · Mexico 🇲🇽 · Nicaragua 🇳🇮 · Jamaica 🇯🇲 · Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 · Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 · France 🇫🇷 |
| Also written | mar Caribe (es) · mer des Caraïbes (fr) · 加勒比海 (zh) · البحر الكاريبي (ar) · Карибское море (ru) · カリブ海 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Caribbean Sea, that point sits at 15.5943° S, 107.2775° E. The nearest coast is Indian Ocean Territories 🇦🇺, roughly 585 km (364 miles) south.
The closest settlement of any size is Bandung, Indonesia, about 962 km (598 miles) from the point.
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