Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Melekeok, Palau 🇵🇼, home to about 7,000 people, and you would surface in Brazil 🇧🇷, at 7.4874° S, 45.3735° W. That puts Melekeok among the 66 cities on this list — out of 391 — whose antipode is dry land rather than water.
| City | Melekeok, Palau 🇵🇼 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 7.4874° N, 134.6265° E |
| Antipode coordinates | 7.4874° S, 45.3735° W |
| What is there | Brazil 🇧🇷 |
| Nearest town or city | Caxias, Brazil — 370 km (230 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Melekeok's antipode falls on dry land, inside Brazil 🇧🇷. The closest town or city to that point is Caxias, Brazil, about 370 km (230 miles) away.
2 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Melekeok.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (7.4874° N becomes 7.4874° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (134.6265° E becomes 45.3735° W). More on how antipodes work.
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