Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Barranquilla
Antipode finder · Colombia
The antipode of
Barranquilla.
Draw a straight line from Barranquilla (10.97° N, 74.78° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 10.97° S, 105.22° E, in the Indian Ocean, 61 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Australia. A sloppy Earth sandwich is possible.
- Barranquilla
- 10.97° N, 74.78° W · about 40 m above sea level · 1,206,319 people
- Antipode
- 10.97° S, 105.22° E
- What is there
- The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,680 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 61 km from the antipode, on the coast of Australia
- Nearest town
- Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island · 79 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Bogor · 516 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SLOPPY dry land within 200 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Barranquilla?
Nearly: a sloppy-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Barranquilla lies in the Indian Ocean, 61 km from the nearest dry land in Australia. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 200 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Barranquilla sloppy, so bread in Barranquilla and bread near Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island 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.