In Which country can you place your feet in two different hemispheres?

That's a rare and memorable experience that's available only in a tiny

few places on Earth. The only countries in which that's possible are . . .

• Svalbard and Jan Mayen

• England
• France
• Spain
• Algeria
• Mali
• Burkina Faso
• Togo
• Ghana
• Gabon
• Congo
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Uganda
• Kenya
• Somalia
• Indonesia
• Kiribati
• Gilbert Islands
• Ecuador
• Colombia
• Brazil

And ... if you go to any point between the north and south poles that's on

either the Prime Meridian OR the meridian of 180° longitude ... an area that's

only a few feet wide and about 12,500 miles long ... then you can place your

two feet in THREE different hemispheres at the same time.

And ... if you take a boat out of Accra in Ghana and sail it about 375 miles

south to just the right spot in the Gulf of Guinea and park it there, OR if

you take a boat out of either the Baker Island or Howland Island National

Wildlife Refuges and sail about 240 miles west-southwest to just the right

place in the Pacific Ocean and park it there ... you can bend over and place

your feet and hands in FOUR different hemispheres at the same time.