Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Changde
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Changde.
Draw a straight line from Changde (29.03° N, 111.70° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 29.03° S, 68.30° W, on dry land in Argentina, 8 km from Villa Castelli. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Changde
- 29.03° N, 111.70° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,457,419 people
- Antipode
- 29.03° S, 68.30° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Argentina
- Nearest town
- Villa Castelli, Argentina · 8 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Córdoba · 475 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +1,360 m (40 m here, 1,320 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Changde?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Changde 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 Changde and have a friend put one down 8 km from Villa Castelli, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 1,360 m: Changde sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 1,320 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.