Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Belém
Antipode finder · Brazil
The antipode of
Belém.
Draw a straight line from Belém (1.46° S, 48.50° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 1.46° N, 131.50° E, in the North Pacific Ocean, 49 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Indonesia. A deli-grade Earth sandwich is possible.
- Belém
- 1.46° S, 48.50° W · about 40 m above sea level · 1,499,641 people
- Antipode
- 1.46° N, 131.50° E
- What is there
- The North Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 2,840 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 49 km from the antipode, on the coast of Indonesia
- Nearest town
- Tobi Village, Palau · 177 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Davao · 903 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- DELI dry land within 50 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Belém?
Nearly: a deli-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Belém lies in the North Pacific Ocean, 49 km from the nearest dry land in Indonesia. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 50 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Belém deli, so bread in Belém and bread near Tobi Village, Palau still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
Belém is on the Indonesia & Malaysia ↔ Colombia, Ecuador & the Amazon 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.