Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Bamako
Antipode finder · Mali
The antipode of
Bamako.
Draw a straight line from Bamako (12.61° N, 7.98° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 12.61° S, 172.02° E, in the South Pacific Ocean, 214 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Bamako
- 12.61° N, 7.98° W · about 360 m above sea level · 4,227,569 people
- Antipode
- 12.61° S, 172.02° E
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 2,120 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 214 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Sola, Vanuatu · 504 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Brisbane · 2,575 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 499 km away, 69 km from Goudiry, Senegal ⇄ near Sola, Vanuatu
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Bamako?
No, not from Bamako itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 214 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 2,120 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 499 km from Bamako, 69 km from Goudiry, Senegal. Its other slice would go down 29 km from Sola, Vanuatu.
Bamako is on the The South Pacific ↔ the Sahara & Sahel 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.