Dig straight down from the middle of the Gulf of Mannar 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the South Pacific Ocean 🌊, off the coast of Ecuador 🇪🇨. Below are the Gulf of Mannar's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 34,302 km² (13,244 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | India 🇮🇳 · Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 |
| Also written | Golfo de Mannar (es) · golfe de Mannar (fr) · 马纳尔湾 (zh) · خليج منار (ar) · Манарский залив (ru) · マンナール湾 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Gulf of Mannar, that point sits at 8.2421° S, 101.2099° W. The nearest coast is Ecuador 🇪🇨, roughly 1,350 km (839 miles) south-west.
The closest settlement of any size is Santa Cruz, Ecuador, about 1,477 km (918 miles) from the point.
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