Antipodes
Country No . of antipodal countries Antipodal countries
New Zealand 12 Mainland : Spain , Portugal , Morocco , UK ( Gibraltar ) Chatham Islands : France Kermadec Islands : Algeria Niue : Niger Tokelau : Nigeria Cook Islands : Chad , ( Penrhyn ) Central African Republic , ( Mangaia ) Libya , ( Pukapuka ) Cameroon , ( Nassau ) Nigeria
France 12 Mainland : New Zealand ( Chatham Islands ) Southern & Antarctic Lands : Canada , United States French Guiana : Indonesia New Caledonia : Mauritania , Western Sahara Wallis and Futuna : Niger French Polynesia : Sudan , Egypt , Saudi Arabia , Eritrea , Ethiopia
Brazil 9 China , Japan , South Korea , Philippines , Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei , Palau , Federated States of Micronesia
Indonesia 8 Ecuador , Peru , Colombia , Venezuela , Brazil , Suriname , Guyana , France ( French Guiana )
Peru 7 Vietnam , Cambodia , Laos , Thailand , Malaysia , Indonesia , China
United States 7 Mainland : France ( Southern & Antarctic Lands ) Hawaii : Botswana , Namibia Alaska : Antarctica Palmyra Atoll & Kingman Reef : DR Congo American Samoa : Niger , Nigeria
United Kingdom 7 Falklands : China , Russia Gibraltar : New Zealand South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands : Russia Pitcairn : Saudi Arabia , UAE Bermuda : Australia
China 6 Argentina , Chile , Uruguay , Brazil , Bolivia , UK ( Falkland Islands )
Niger 5 Samoa , Tonga , United States ( American Samoa ) , France ( Wallis and Futuna ) , New Zealand ( Niue )
Antarctica 5 Greenland , Canada , United States , Russia , Norway
Malaysia 4 Ecuador , Peru , Brazil , Colombia
Argentina 4 China , Taiwan , Mongolia , Russia
Chile 4 China , Mongolia , Russia ; Easter Island : India
Kiribati 4 Phoenix Islands ( Orona ) : Nigeria ; Line Islands : DR Congo , Central African Republic , Sudan
Russia 4 Antarctica , Chile , Argentina , United Kingdom ( Falklands etc . )
Australia 3 Mainland : Bermuda ( UK ) , Portugal ( Azores ) Heard Island and McDonald Islands : Canada Christmas Island : Colombia
Ecuador 3 Malaysia , Singapore , Indonesia
Philippines 3 Brazil , Bolivia , Paraguay
Vanuatu 3 Mauritania , Senegal , ( Mere Lava ) Mali
Paraguay 3 Taiwan , Japan , Philippines
List of antipodes -- Earth
The following countries are opposite more than one other country . ( Antarctica is considered separately from any territorial claims . )
In geography, the antipode () of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it. A pair of points antipodal () to each other are situated such that a straight line connecting the two would pass through Earth's center. Antipodal points are as far away from each other as possible. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Antipodes may be used to refer to Australia and New Zealand, and Antipodeans to their inhabitants. Geographically, the antipodes of Britain and Ireland are in the Pacific Ocean, south of New Zealand. This gave rise to the name of the Antipodes Islands of New Zealand, which are close to the antipode of London. The antipodes of Australia are in the North Atlantic Ocean, while parts of Spain, Portugal, and Morocco are antipodal to New Zealand. Approximately 15% of land territory is antipodal to other land, representing approximately 4.4% of the Earth's surface. Another source estimates that about 3% of the Earth's surface is antipodal land. The largest antipodal land masses are the Malay Archipelago, antipodal to the Amazon Basin and adjoining Andean ranges; east China and Mongolia, antipodal to Chile and Argentina; and Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, antipodal to East Antarctica. There is a general paucity of antipodal land because the Southern Hemisphere has comparatively less land than the Northern Hemisphere, and of that, the antipodes of Australia are in the North Atlantic Ocean, while the antipodes of southern Africa are in the Pacific Ocean.