The opposite side of the world from Manama (BAH)
Bahrain International Airport — 26.27°N, 50.64°E
Exact antipodal point
26.27°S, 129.36°W
Nearest airport to that point
Totegegie Airport, French Polynesia GMR
Totegegie Airport
The exact point falls in open water or empty terrain: the nearest airport is 661 km away from it. Roughly 71% of the Earth is ocean, so most antipodes land at sea.
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Of the maximum possible
96.7%
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.