Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 🇻🇳, home to about 5.31 million people, and you would surface in Peru 🇵🇪, at 10.7820° S, 73.3069° W. That puts Ho Chi Minh City among the 66 cities on this list — out of 391 — whose antipode is dry land rather than water.
| City | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 🇻🇳 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 10.7820° N, 106.6931° E |
| Antipode coordinates | 10.7820° S, 73.3069° W |
| What is there | Peru 🇵🇪 |
| Nearest town or city | Huancayo, Peru — 252 km (157 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Ho Chi Minh City's antipode falls on dry land, inside Peru 🇵🇪. The closest town or city to that point is Huancayo, Peru, about 252 km (157 miles) away.
2 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Ho Chi Minh City.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (10.7820° N becomes 10.7820° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (106.6931° E becomes 73.3069° W). More on how antipodes work.
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