Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Daqing

Antipode finder · China

The antipode of
Daqing.

Draw a straight line from Daqing (46.58° N, 125.00° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 46.58° S, 55.00° W, in the South Atlantic Ocean, 573 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of the Falkland Islands. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.

Two globes: one centred on Daqing, one centred on its antipode at 46.58° S, 55.00° W
Above DaqingAbove the antipode
Daqing
46.58° N, 125.00° E · about 120 m above sea level · 1,604,027 people
Antipode
46.58° S, 55.00° W
What is there
The South Atlantic Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,800 m below the surface
Nearest dry land
573 km from the antipode, on the coast of the Falkland Islands
Nearest town
Stanley, Falkland Islands · 605 km from the antipode
Nearest big city
Montevideo · 1,303 km from the antipode
Sandwich verdict
SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
Nearest exact spot
583 km away, 61 km from Genhe, China ⇄ 55 km from Stanley, Falkland Islands

Can you make an Earth sandwich from Daqing?

No, not from Daqing itself. The other slice would land in the South Atlantic Ocean, 573 km from the nearest dry land (the Falkland Islands), where the sea floor lies about 5,800 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).

The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 583 km from Daqing, 61 km from Genhe, China. Its other slice would go down 55 km from Stanley, Falkland Islands.

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.