Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Daejeon
Antipode finder · South Korea
The antipode of
Daejeon.
Draw a straight line from Daejeon (36.35° N, 127.38° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 36.35° S, 52.62° W, in the South Atlantic Ocean, 233 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Uruguay. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Daejeon
- 36.35° N, 127.38° E · about 200 m above sea level · 1,441,203 people
- Antipode
- 36.35° S, 52.62° W
- What is there
- The South Atlantic Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 2,200 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 233 km from the antipode, on the coast of Uruguay
- Nearest town
- La Paloma, Uruguay · 234 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Montevideo · 361 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 233 km away, near Sinan, South Korea ⇄ near La Paloma, Uruguay
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Daejeon?
No, not from Daejeon itself. The other slice would land in the South Atlantic Ocean, 233 km from the nearest dry land (Uruguay), where the sea floor lies about 2,200 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 233 km from Daejeon, 30 km from Sinan, South Korea. Its other slice would go down 1 km from La Paloma, Uruguay.
Daejeon is on the Okinawa & Jeju ↔ southern Brazil 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.