Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Handan
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Handan.
Draw a straight line from Handan (36.61° N, 114.49° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 36.61° S, 65.51° W, on dry land in Argentina, 38 km from Telén. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Handan
- 36.61° N, 114.49° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,358,318 people
- Antipode
- 36.61° S, 65.51° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Argentina
- Nearest town
- Telén, Argentina · 38 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Santiago · 584 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +400 m (40 m here, 360 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Handan?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Handan is one of the few large cities with dry land directly opposite it. The grid that verifies submissions rates the spot exact: put a slice down in Handan and have a friend put one down 38 km from Telén, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 400 m: Handan sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 360 m above sea level.
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.