Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Ho Chi Minh City
Antipode finder · Vietnam
The antipode of
Ho Chi Minh City.
Draw a straight line from Ho Chi Minh City (10.82° N, 106.63° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 10.82° S, 73.37° W, on dry land in Peru, 44 km from Atalaya. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Ho Chi Minh City
- 10.82° N, 106.63° E · about 40 m above sea level · 14,002,598 people
- Antipode
- 10.82° S, 73.37° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Peru
- Nearest town
- Atalaya, Peru · 44 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Lima · 421 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +320 m (40 m here, 280 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Ho Chi Minh City 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 Ho Chi Minh City and have a friend put one down 44 km from Atalaya, Peru at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 320 m: Ho Chi Minh City sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 280 m above sea level.
Ho Chi Minh City is on the Vietnam, Cambodia & Thailand ↔ Peru 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.