Dig straight down from the middle of the Golfo de Tehuantepec 🌊 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 Golfo de Tehuantepec's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 17,540 km² (6,772 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Mexico 🇲🇽 |
| Also written | Golfo de Tehuantepec (es) · Golfe de Tehuantepec (fr) · 特萬特佩克灣 (zh) · خليج تيهوانتبيك (ar) · Теуантепек (ru) · テワンテペク湾 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Golfo de Tehuantepec, that point sits at 15.8190° S, 85.2175° E. The nearest coast is Indian Ocean Territories 🇦🇺, roughly 1,317 km (818 miles) west.
The closest settlement of any size is Padang, Indonesia, about 2,343 km (1,456 miles) from the point.
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