Antipodal cities are places that lie on nearly opposite sides of the Earth — connected by an imaginary straight line passing through the planet’s centre. Because most of Earth’s landmass is clustered in the Northern Hemisphere, true land-to-land antipodes are exceptionally rare. In most cases, a city’s exact opposite point falls deep in the ocean.

This page explores the rare exceptions. Here you’ll find near-exact antipodal city pairs, major cities whose antipodes fall close to land, and curated examples that reveal how geography, chance, and distance shape the farthest possible connections between places.

Use the tables below to explore notable antipodal pairings, jump straight to the interactive antipode map, or dive deeper with detailed city guides that place each relationship in geographic and cultural context. It’s a quiet reminder that even the most distant cities on Earth can be linked by a single invisible line.