Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Accra
Antipode finder · Ghana
The antipode of
Accra.
Draw a straight line from Accra (5.56° N, 0.20° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 5.56° S, 179.80° E, in the South Pacific Ocean, 246 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Tuvalu. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Accra
- 5.56° N, 0.20° W · at about sea level · 1,963,264 people
- Antipode
- 5.56° S, 179.80° E
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,040 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 246 km from the antipode, on the coast of Tuvalu
- Nearest town
- Asau Village, Tuvalu · 248 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 3,517 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 957 km away, near Tibiri, Niger ⇄ near Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Accra?
No, not from Accra itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 246 km from the nearest dry land (Tuvalu), where the sea floor lies about 4,040 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 957 km from Accra, 22 km from Tibiri, Niger. Its other slice would go down 9 km from Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna.
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.