Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Freetown, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, home to about 827,000 people, and you would surface in the South Pacific Ocean 🌊, at 8.4720° S, 166.7638° 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 | Freetown, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 8.4720° N, 13.2362° W |
| Antipode coordinates | 8.4720° S, 166.7638° E |
| What is there | South Pacific Ocean 🌊 (open water) |
| Nearest land | Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 — 255 km (158 miles) away |
| Nearest town or city | Honiara, Solomon Islands — 756 km (470 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Freetown's antipode is in open water, in the South Pacific Ocean 🌊. The point lies roughly 255 km (158 miles) north of the nearest coast, which belongs to Solomon Islands 🇸🇧.
The closest settlement of any size is Honiara, Solomon Islands, about 756 km (470 miles) from the point.
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174 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Freetown; the 10 largest are shown.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (8.4720° N becomes 8.4720° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (13.2362° W becomes 166.7638° E). More on how antipodes work.
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