Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Heze
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Heze.
Draw a straight line from Heze (35.24° N, 115.47° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 35.24° S, 64.53° W, on dry land in Argentina, 11 km from Parera. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Heze
- 35.24° N, 115.47° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,346,717 people
- Antipode
- 35.24° S, 64.53° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Argentina
- Nearest town
- Parera, Argentina · 11 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Córdoba · 427 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +240 m (40 m here, 200 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Heze?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Heze 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 Heze and have a friend put one down 11 km from Parera, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 240 m: Heze sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 200 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.