Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 🇲🇳, home to about 885,000 people, and you would surface in Chile 🇨🇱, at 47.9186° S, 73.0853° W. That puts Ulaanbaatar among the 66 cities on this list — out of 391 — whose antipode is dry land rather than water.
| City | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 🇲🇳 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 47.9186° N, 106.9147° E |
| Antipode coordinates | 47.9186° S, 73.0853° W |
| What is there | Chile 🇨🇱 |
| Nearest town or city | Coihaique, Chile — 272 km (169 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Ulaanbaatar's antipode falls on dry land, inside Chile 🇨🇱. The closest town or city to that point is Coihaique, Chile, about 272 km (169 miles) away.
2 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Ulaanbaatar.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (47.9186° N becomes 47.9186° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (106.9147° E becomes 73.0853° W). More on how antipodes work.
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