Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Dakar, Senegal 🇸🇳, home to about 2.60 million people, and you would surface in Coral Sea 🌊, at 14.7178° S, 162.5249° E. Like most of the planet, that spot is open ocean; only 66 of the 391 cities listed here have an antipode on land.
| City | Dakar, Senegal 🇸🇳 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 14.7178° N, 17.4751° W |
| Antipode coordinates | 14.7178° S, 162.5249° E |
| What is there | Coral Sea 🌊 (open water) |
| Nearest land | Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 — 387 km (240 miles) away |
| Nearest town or city | Honiara, Solomon Islands — 650 km (404 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Dakar's antipode is in open water, in Coral Sea 🌊. The point lies roughly 387 km (240 miles) south-east of the nearest coast, which belongs to Solomon Islands 🇸🇧.
The closest settlement of any size is Honiara, Solomon Islands, about 650 km (404 miles) from the point.
4 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Dakar.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (14.7178° N becomes 14.7178° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (17.4751° W becomes 162.5249° E). More on how antipodes work.
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