Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Asunción
Antipode finder · Paraguay
The antipode of
Asunción.
Draw a straight line from Asunción (25.29° S, 57.65° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 25.29° N, 122.35° E, in the East China Sea, 33 km from the nearest dry land. A deli-grade Earth sandwich is possible.
- Asunción
- 25.29° S, 57.65° W · about 40 m above sea level · 1,482,200 people
- Antipode
- 25.29° N, 122.35° E
- What is there
- The East China Sea; the sea floor there lies about 440 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 33 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Jiufen, Taiwan · 55 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Taipei · 87 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- DELI dry land within 50 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Asunción?
Nearly: a deli-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Asunción lies in the East China Sea, 33 km from the nearest dry land. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 50 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Asunción deli, so bread in Asunción and bread near Jiufen, Taiwan still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
Asunción is on the China & Mongolia ↔ Argentina & Chile corridor. Its guide lists where every city on both sides lands and how to make an Earth sandwich there.
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.