Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Shantou, China 🇨🇳, home to about 1.60 million people, and you would surface in Argentina 🇦🇷, at 23.3720° S, 63.3319° W. That puts Shantou among the 66 cities on this list — out of 391 — whose antipode is dry land rather than water.
| City | Shantou, China 🇨🇳 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 23.3720° N, 116.6681° E |
| Antipode coordinates | 23.3720° S, 63.3319° W |
| What is there | Argentina 🇦🇷 |
| Nearest town or city | Tarija, Bolivia — 253 km (157 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Shantou's antipode falls on dry land, inside Argentina 🇦🇷. The closest town or city to that point is Tarija, Bolivia, about 253 km (157 miles) away.
35 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Shantou; the 10 largest are shown.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (23.3720° N becomes 23.3720° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (116.6681° E becomes 63.3319° W). More on how antipodes work.
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