Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from São Tomé, Sao Tome and Principe 🇸🇹, home to about 88,000 people, and you would surface in South Pacific Ocean 🌊, at 0.3334° S, 173.2667° W. Like most of the planet, that spot is open ocean; only 66 of the 391 cities listed here have an antipode on land.
| City | São Tomé, Sao Tome and Principe 🇸🇹 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 0.3334° N, 6.7333° E |
| Antipode coordinates | 0.3334° S, 173.2667° W |
| What is there | South Pacific Ocean 🌊 (open water) |
| Nearest land | Kiribati 🇰🇮 — 320 km (199 miles) away |
| Nearest town or city | Funafuti, Tuvalu — 1,233 km (766 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
São Tomé's antipode is in open water, in South Pacific Ocean 🌊. The point lies roughly 320 km (199 miles) north-west of the nearest coast, which belongs to Kiribati 🇰🇮.
The closest settlement of any size is Funafuti, Tuvalu, about 1,233 km (766 miles) from the point.
174 other cities on this list surface in the same place as São Tomé; the 10 largest are shown.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (0.3334° N becomes 0.3334° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (6.7333° E becomes 173.2667° W). More on how antipodes work.
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