Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Belo Horizonte
Antipode finder · Brazil
The antipode of
Belo Horizonte.
Draw a straight line from Belo Horizonte (19.92° S, 43.94° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 19.92° N, 136.06° E, in the Philippine Sea, 56 km from the nearest dry land. A sloppy Earth sandwich is possible.
- Belo Horizonte
- 19.92° S, 43.94° W · about 840 m above sea level · 2,721,564 people
- Antipode
- 19.92° N, 136.06° E
- What is there
- The Philippine Sea; the sea floor there lies about 4,040 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 56 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Minamidaito, Japan · 822 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Taipei · 1,597 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SLOPPY dry land within 200 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Belo Horizonte?
Nearly: a sloppy-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Belo Horizonte lies in the Philippine Sea, 56 km from the nearest dry land. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 200 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Belo Horizonte sloppy, so bread in Belo Horizonte and bread near Minamidaito, Japan 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.