Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲, home to about 938,000 people, and you would surface in the Indian Ocean 🌊, at 17.9771° S, 103.2326° E. Like most of the planet, that spot is open ocean; only 66 of the 391 cities listed here have an antipode on land.
| City | Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 17.9771° N, 76.7674° W |
| Antipode coordinates | 17.9771° S, 103.2326° E |
| What is there | Indian Ocean 🌊 (open water) |
| Nearest land | Indian Ocean Territories 🇦🇺 — 866 km (538 miles) away |
| Nearest town or city | Bandung, Indonesia — 1,313 km (816 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Kingston's antipode is in open water, in the Indian Ocean 🌊. The point lies roughly 866 km (538 miles) south of the nearest coast, which belongs to Indian Ocean Territories 🇦🇺.
The closest settlement of any size is Bandung, Indonesia, about 1,313 km (816 miles) from the point.
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63 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Kingston; the 10 largest are shown.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (17.9771° N becomes 17.9771° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (76.7674° W becomes 103.2326° E). More on how antipodes work.
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