Dig straight down from the middle of the Gulf of Papua 🌊 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 Brazil 🇧🇷. Below are the Gulf of Papua's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 40,460 km² (15,622 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 |
| Also written | Golfo de Papúa (es) · Golfe de Papouasie (fr) · 巴布亞灣 (zh) · خليج بابوا (ar) · Папуа (ru) · パプア湾 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Gulf of Papua, that point sits at 8.2042° N, 35.1321° W. The nearest coast is Brazil 🇧🇷, roughly 1,342 km (834 miles) north-east.
The closest settlement of any size is Fortaleza, Brazil, about 1,383 km (859 miles) from the point.
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