Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Linyi, China 🇨🇳, home to about 2.08 million people, and you would surface in Argentina 🇦🇷, at 35.0819° S, 61.6720° W. That puts Linyi among the 66 cities on this list — out of 391 — whose antipode is dry land rather than water.
| City | Linyi, China 🇨🇳 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 35.0819° N, 118.3280° E |
| Antipode coordinates | 35.0819° S, 61.6720° W |
| What is there | Argentina 🇦🇷 |
| Nearest town or city | Rosario, Argentina — 255 km (158 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Linyi's antipode falls on dry land, inside Argentina 🇦🇷. The closest town or city to that point is Rosario, Argentina, about 255 km (158 miles) away.
35 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Linyi; the 10 largest are shown.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (35.0819° N becomes 35.0819° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (118.3280° E becomes 61.6720° W). More on how antipodes work.
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