Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth from Xiamen, China 🇨🇳, home to about 2.52 million people, and you would surface in Argentina 🇦🇷, at 24.4519° S, 61.9219° W. That puts Xiamen among the 66 cities on this list — out of 391 — whose antipode is dry land rather than water.
| City | Xiamen, China 🇨🇳 |
|---|---|
| City coordinates | 24.4519° N, 118.0781° E |
| Antipode coordinates | 24.4519° S, 61.9219° W |
| What is there | Argentina 🇦🇷 |
| Nearest town or city | Salta, Argentina — 355 km (221 miles) away |
| Distance straight through the Earth | 12,742 km (7,918 miles) |
Xiamen's antipode falls on dry land, inside Argentina 🇦🇷. The closest town or city to that point is Salta, Argentina, about 355 km (221 miles) away.
35 other cities on this list surface in the same place as Xiamen; the 10 largest are shown.
Worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator (24.4519° N becomes 24.4519° S) and shifting the longitude by 180° (118.0781° E becomes 61.9219° W). More on how antipodes work.
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