Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Dhaka
Antipode finder · Bangladesh
The antipode of
Dhaka.
Draw a straight line from Dhaka (23.71° N, 90.41° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 23.71° S, 89.59° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 996 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Chile. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Dhaka
- 23.71° N, 90.41° E · about 40 m above sea level · 10,356,500 people
- Antipode
- 23.71° S, 89.59° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,880 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 996 km from the antipode, on the coast of Chile
- Nearest town
- San Juan, Peru · 1,772 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Callao · 1,847 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,405 km away, 41 km from Jimai, China ⇄ 773 km from Talcahuano, Chile
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Dhaka?
No, not from Dhaka itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 996 km from the nearest dry land (Chile), where the sea floor lies about 3,880 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,405 km from Dhaka, 41 km from Jimai, China. Its other slice would go down 773 km from Talcahuano, Chile.
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.