Dig straight down from the middle of the Coral 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 Cabo Verde 🇨🇻. Below are the Coral Sea's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 3,966,947 km² (1,531,646 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Australia 🇦🇺 · Vanuatu 🇻🇺 · New Caledonia 🇳🇨 · Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 · Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 |
| Also written | mar del Coral (es) · mer de Corail (fr) · 珊瑚海 (zh) · بحر المرجان (ar) · Коралловое море (ru) · 珊瑚海 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Coral Sea, that point sits at 19.4085° N, 21.6550° W. The nearest coast is Cabo Verde 🇨🇻, roughly 314 km (195 miles) north-east.
The closest settlement of any size is Nouadhibou, Mauritania, about 508 km (316 miles) from the point.
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