Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Harbin
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Harbin.
Draw a straight line from Harbin (45.75° N, 126.65° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 45.75° S, 53.35° W, in the South Atlantic Ocean, 710 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of the Falkland Islands. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Harbin
- 45.75° N, 126.65° E · about 120 m above sea level · 5,242,897 people
- Antipode
- 45.75° S, 53.35° W
- What is there
- The South Atlantic Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,960 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 710 km from the antipode, on the coast of the Falkland Islands
- Nearest town
- Stanley, Falkland Islands · 739 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Montevideo · 1,230 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 711 km away, 83 km from Genhe, China ⇄ 31 km from Stanley, Falkland Islands
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Harbin?
No, not from Harbin itself. The other slice would land in the South Atlantic Ocean, 710 km from the nearest dry land (the Falkland Islands), where the sea floor lies about 5,960 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 711 km from Harbin, 83 km from Genhe, China. Its other slice would go down 31 km from Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Harbin is on the China & Mongolia ↔ Argentina & Chile corridor. Its guide lists where every city on both sides lands and how to make an Earth sandwich there.
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.