Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Hezhou
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Hezhou.
Draw a straight line from Hezhou (24.40° N, 111.57° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 24.40° S, 68.43° W, on dry land in Chile, 168 km from San Pedro de Atacama. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Hezhou
- 24.40° N, 111.57° E · about 280 m above sea level · 1,005,490 people
- Antipode
- 24.40° S, 68.43° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Chile
- Nearest town
- San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 168 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- La Paz · 879 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +4,640 m (280 m here, 4,360 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Hezhou?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Hezhou 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 Hezhou and have a friend put one down 168 km from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 4,640 m: Hezhou sits about 280 m above sea level and the other slice about 4,360 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.