There is a lot of discussion about where someone would end up if they started digging into the ground beneath them with the aim of getting out on the other side.
According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, the majority of the most populous cities on our planet have an opposite point, somewhere in the ocean.
In Britain some might assume it comes from Australia, while for Americans the most common answer would probably be China.
It is not physically possible to know the result with certainty, and it would require a journey of approximately 12,870 kilometers through the Earth’s crust and its inner and outer core.
Of course, given that the Earth’s surface contains about 71 percent water, it is not surprising that the chances of reaching land are relatively low.
However, there are plenty of cities on both sides of the Earth that match each other:
- Auckland in New Zealand with Seville in Spain.
- And also Shanghai in China with the capital of Argentina Buenos Aires, and when you dig a hole from the center of Beijing, you will come out in Rio Negro, near Bahia Blanca in Argentina.
- And an American digging a hole from Times Square in New York will end up in the ocean off the coast of Australia.
- The Russians drilling from Moscow will find themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
- And if you were in Tokyo and wanted to get out on the other side of the earth, it would be off the coast of Uruguay.
