Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Fortaleza
Antipode finder · Brazil
The antipode of
Fortaleza.
Draw a straight line from Fortaleza (3.72° S, 38.54° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 3.72° N, 141.46° E, in the North Pacific Ocean, 372 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Fortaleza
- 3.72° S, 38.54° W · at about sea level · 2,400,000 people
- Antipode
- 3.72° N, 141.46° E
- What is there
- The North Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 2,440 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 372 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Eauripik, Micronesia · 374 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Davao · 1,793 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 861 km away, near Sambaíba, Brazil ⇄ near Ngetkib, Palau
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Fortaleza?
No, not from Fortaleza itself. The other slice would land in the North Pacific Ocean, 372 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 2,440 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 861 km from Fortaleza, 24 km from Sambaíba, Brazil. Its other slice would go down 8 km from Ngetkib, Palau.
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.