Dig straight down from the middle of the Lago de Maracaibo 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the Indian Ocean 🌊, off the coast of Indonesia 🇮🇩. Below are the Lago de Maracaibo's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 12,196 km² (4,709 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Venezuela 🇻🇪 |
| Also written | Lago de Maracaibo (es) · lac Maracaibo (fr) · 马拉开波湖 (zh) · بحيرة ماراكايبو (ar) · Маракайбо (ru) · マラカイボ湖 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Lago de Maracaibo, that point sits at 9.9238° S, 108.4004° E. The nearest coast is Indonesia 🇮🇩, roughly 237 km (147 miles) south.
The closest settlement of any size is Bandung, Indonesia, about 343 km (213 miles) from the point.
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