Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Da Nang
Antipode finder · Vietnam
The antipode of
Da Nang.
Draw a straight line from Da Nang (16.07° N, 108.22° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 16.07° S, 71.78° W, on dry land in Peru, 11 km from Huanca. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Da Nang
- 16.07° N, 108.22° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,276,000 people
- Antipode
- 16.07° S, 71.78° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Peru
- Nearest town
- Huanca, Peru · 11 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Arequipa · 45 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +3,440 m (40 m here, 3,400 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Da Nang?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Da Nang 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 Da Nang and have a friend put one down 11 km from Huanca, Peru at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 3,440 m: Da Nang sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 3,400 m above sea level.
Da Nang is on the Vietnam, Cambodia & Thailand ↔ Peru 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.