Dig straight down from the middle of the Tasman Sea 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊, off the coast of Portugal 🇵🇹. Below are the Tasman Sea's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 3,336,963 km² (1,288,408 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | New Zealand 🇳🇿 · Australia 🇦🇺 |
| Also written | mar de Tasmania (es) · mer de Tasman (fr) · 塔斯曼海 (zh) · بحر تسمان (ar) · Тасманово море (ru) · タスマン海 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Tasman Sea, that point sits at 40.3325° N, 18.1952° W. The nearest coast is Portugal 🇵🇹, roughly 664 km (413 miles) north-east.
The closest settlement of any size is Ponta Delgada, Portugal, about 706 km (439 miles) from the point.
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