The opposite side of the world from Apia (APW)
Faleolo International Airport — 13.83°S, 172.01°W
Exact antipodal point
13.83°N, 7.99°E
Nearest airport to that point
Katsina, Nigeria DKA
Umaru Musa Yar'adua Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 98 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
99.5%
No two points on Earth can be more than about 20,015 km apart.
The antipode is found by negating the latitude and shifting the longitude by 180°. Distances use the haversine formula on a sphere of mean radius 6,371.0088 km. Airport coordinates come from the public-domain OurAirports dataset.