Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / İzmir
Antipode finder · Turkey
The antipode of
İzmir.
Draw a straight line from İzmir (38.41° N, 27.14° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 38.41° S, 152.86° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,436 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of French Polynesia. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- İzmir
- 38.41° N, 27.14° E · about 120 m above sea level · 2,938,292 people
- Antipode
- 38.41° S, 152.86° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,320 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,436 km from the antipode, on the coast of French Polynesia
- Nearest town
- Moerai, French Polynesia · 1,781 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 2,842 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 2,017 km away, 247 km from Ounianga Kébir, Chad ⇄ near Matavera, Cook Islands
Can you make an Earth sandwich from İzmir?
No, not from İzmir itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,436 km from the nearest dry land (French Polynesia), where the sea floor lies about 5,320 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 2,017 km from İzmir, 247 km from Ounianga Kébir, Chad. Its other slice would go down 4 km from Matavera, Cook Islands.
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.