Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Brasília
Antipode finder · Brazil
The antipode of
Brasília.
Draw a straight line from Brasília (15.78° S, 47.93° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 15.78° N, 132.07° E, in the Philippine Sea, 667 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Brasília
- 15.78° S, 47.93° W · about 1,080 m above sea level · 2,207,718 people
- Antipode
- 15.78° N, 132.07° E
- What is there
- The Philippine Sea; the sea floor there lies about 5,480 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 667 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- San Policarpo, Philippines · 813 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Taguig · 1,188 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 812 km away, 51 km from Feliz Natal, Brazil ⇄ near San Policarpo, Philippines
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Brasília?
No, not from Brasília itself. The other slice would land in the Philippine Sea, 667 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 5,480 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 812 km from Brasília, 51 km from Feliz Natal, Brazil. Its other slice would go down 3 km from San Policarpo, Philippines.
Brasília is on the The Philippines ↔ Brazil & Bolivia 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.