Dig straight down from the middle of the Lagoa dos Patos 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the East China Sea 🌊, off the coast of Japan 🇯🇵. Below are the Lagoa dos Patos's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 9,833 km² (3,797 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Brazil 🇧🇷 |
| Also written | Lagoa dos Patos (es) · Lagoa dos Patos (fr) · 帕托斯湖 (zh) · لاجوا دوس باتوس (ar) · озеро Патус (ru) · パトス湖 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Lagoa dos Patos, that point sits at 31.0671° N, 128.7804° E. The nearest coast is Japan 🇯🇵, roughly 107 km (66 miles) south-west.
The closest settlement of any size is Nagasaki, Japan, about 216 km (134 miles) from the point.
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