Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Bayan Nur
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The antipode of
Bayan Nur.
Draw a straight line from Bayan Nur (40.74° N, 107.39° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 40.74° S, 72.61° W, on dry land in Chile, 9 km from Puyehue. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Bayan Nur
- 40.74° N, 107.39° E · about 1,080 m above sea level · 1,760,000 people
- Antipode
- 40.74° S, 72.61° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Chile
- Nearest town
- Puyehue, Chile · 9 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Santiago · 828 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +1,280 m (1,080 m here, 200 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Bayan Nur?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Bayan Nur is one of the few large cities with dry land directly opposite it. The grid that verifies submissions rates the spot exact: put a slice down in Bayan Nur and have a friend put one down 9 km from Puyehue, Chile at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 1,280 m: Bayan Nur sits about 1,080 m above sea level and the other slice about 200 m above sea level.
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.