Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Gazipur

Antipode finder · Bangladesh

The antipode of
Gazipur.

Draw a straight line from Gazipur (24.00° N, 90.42° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 24.00° S, 89.58° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 985 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Chile. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.

Two globes: one centred on Gazipur, one centred on its antipode at 24.00° S, 89.58° W
Above GazipurAbove the antipode
Gazipur
24.00° N, 90.42° E · about 40 m above sea level · 2,674,697 people
Antipode
24.00° S, 89.58° W
What is there
The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,880 m below the surface
Nearest dry land
985 km from the antipode, on the coast of Chile
Nearest town
San Juan, Peru · 1,787 km from the antipode
Nearest big city
Callao · 1,867 km from the antipode
Sandwich verdict
SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
Nearest exact spot
1,378 km away, 41 km from Jimai, China ⇄ 773 km from Talcahuano, Chile

Can you make an Earth sandwich from Gazipur?

No, not from Gazipur itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 985 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 1,378 km from Gazipur, 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.