Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Dakar
Antipode finder · Senegal
The antipode of
Dakar.
Draw a straight line from Dakar (14.69° N, 17.44° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 14.69° S, 162.56° E, in the Coral Sea, 374 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Dakar
- 14.69° N, 17.44° W · at about sea level · 2,646,503 people
- Antipode
- 14.69° S, 162.56° E
- What is there
- The Coral Sea; the sea floor there lies about 4,520 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 374 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Kirakira, Solomon Islands · 476 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Brisbane · 1,729 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 429 km away, 70 km from Sémé, Senegal ⇄ 63 km from Port-Olry, Vanuatu
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Dakar?
No, not from Dakar itself. The other slice would land in the Coral Sea, 374 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 4,520 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 429 km from Dakar, 70 km from Sémé, Senegal. Its other slice would go down 63 km from Port-Olry, Vanuatu.
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.