Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Erbil
Antipode finder · Iraq
The antipode of
Erbil.
Draw a straight line from Erbil (36.19° N, 44.01° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 36.19° S, 135.99° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,161 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Erbil
- 36.19° N, 44.01° E · about 520 m above sea level · 1,612,700 people
- Antipode
- 36.19° S, 135.99° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,600 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,161 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Adamstown, Pitcairn · 1,359 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 4,351 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,671 km away, 32 km from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ⇄ 403 km from Otepa, French Polynesia
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Erbil?
No, not from Erbil itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,161 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 4,600 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,671 km from Erbil, 32 km from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Its other slice would go down 403 km from Otepa, French Polynesia.
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.