Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Abidjan
Antipode finder · Ivory Coast
The antipode of
Abidjan.
Draw a straight line from Abidjan (5.35° N, 4.00° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 5.35° S, 176.00° E, in the South Pacific Ocean, 33 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Tuvalu. A deli-grade Earth sandwich is possible.
- Abidjan
- 5.35° N, 4.00° W · about 40 m above sea level · 6,321,017 people
- Antipode
- 5.35° S, 176.00° E
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,320 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 33 km from the antipode, on the coast of Tuvalu
- Nearest town
- Toga Village, Tuvalu · 110 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Brisbane · 3,457 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- DELI dry land within 50 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Abidjan?
Nearly: a deli-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Abidjan lies in the South Pacific Ocean, 33 km from the nearest dry land in Tuvalu. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 50 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Abidjan deli, so bread in Abidjan and bread near Toga Village, Tuvalu still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
How this was worked out: the antipode flips the latitude and moves the longitude by 180°. Land or sea comes from the OpenStreetMap coastline the map uses; the sandwich verdict and elevations come from the verifier's 0.2° grid (Natural Earth land, ETOPO 2022 relief); water names from Natural Earth; towns and populations from GeoNames. The city's position is GeoNames' point for it; a big city's suburbs spread tens of kilometres around that point, and the figures move with them. Generated 2026-09-29.