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Marcos Dione

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* very few land places have a land antipode #maps

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Potato ENTHUSIAST

@mdione Aotearoa has Spain. So we can both hold bread and make the earth into a sandwich

Marcus Müller

@mdione but at least some of the most populated regions in east Asia do, so that does increase the likelihood of antipodal earthlings

Holger Dittmann

@mdione In case you did not learn that today, too: By total coincidence, the main island of Taiwan (which is historically known as Formosa) is the (partial) antipode of the Formosa province in Argentina.

Bok

@mdione
Given that the planet's 71% covered in water, one would default to the expectation that that would be the percentage of land places that lack a land antipode, but the overlap looks even lower on this map.

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