Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Campinas

Antipode finder · Brazil

The antipode of
Campinas.

Draw a straight line from Campinas (22.91° S, 47.06° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 22.91° N, 132.94° E, in the Philippine Sea, 248 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.

Two globes: one centred on Campinas, one centred on its antipode at 22.91° N, 132.94° E
Above CampinasAbove the antipode
Campinas
22.91° S, 47.06° W · about 600 m above sea level · 1,031,554 people
Antipode
22.91° N, 132.94° E
What is there
The Philippine Sea; the sea floor there lies about 5,640 m below the surface
Nearest dry land
248 km from the antipode
Nearest town
Minamidaito, Japan · 368 km from the antipode
Nearest big city
Taipei · 1,183 km from the antipode
Sandwich verdict
SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
Nearest exact spot
366 km away, near Guaratuba, Brazil ⇄ near Minamidaito, Japan

Can you make an Earth sandwich from Campinas?

No, not from Campinas itself. The other slice would land in the Philippine Sea, 248 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 5,640 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).

The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 366 km from Campinas, 20 km from Guaratuba, Brazil. Its other slice would go down 2 km from Minamidaito, Japan.

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.