Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Handan, China 🇨🇳, home to about 1.63 million people, and you would surface in Argentina 🇦🇷, at 36.5819° S, 65.5220° W. That puts Handan among the 66 cities on this list — out of 391 — whose antipode is dry land rather than water.
| City | Handan, China 🇨🇳 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 36.5819° N, 114.4780° E |
| Antipode coordinates | 36.5819° S, 65.5220° W |
| What is there | Argentina 🇦🇷 |
| Nearest town or city | Santa Rosa, Argentina — 109 km (68 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Handan's antipode falls on dry land, inside Argentina 🇦🇷. The closest town or city to that point is Santa Rosa, Argentina, about 109 km (68 miles) away.
35 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Handan; the 10 largest are shown.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (36.5819° N becomes 36.5819° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (114.4780° E becomes 65.5220° W). More on how antipodes work.
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