Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Lima, Peru 🇵🇪, home to about 8.01 million people, and you would surface in Cambodia 🇰🇭, at 12.0461° N, 102.9480° E. That puts Lima among the 66 cities on this list — out of 391 — whose antipode is dry land rather than water.
| City | Lima, Peru 🇵🇪 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 12.0461° S, 77.0520° W |
| Antipode coordinates | 12.0461° N, 102.9480° E |
| What is there | Cambodia 🇰🇭 |
| Nearest town or city | Battambang, Cambodia — 120 km (75 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Lima's antipode falls on dry land, inside Cambodia 🇰🇭. The closest town or city to that point is Battambang, Cambodia, about 120 km (75 miles) away.
No other city on this list surfaces in Cambodia — Lima has it to itself.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (12.0461° S becomes 12.0461° N) and shifting the longitude by 180° (77.0520° W becomes 102.9480° E). More on how antipodes work.
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