Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Jamshedpur

Antipode finder · India

The antipode of
Jamshedpur.

Draw a straight line from Jamshedpur (22.80° N, 86.19° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 22.80° S, 93.81° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,236 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Chile. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.

Two globes: one centred on Jamshedpur, one centred on its antipode at 22.80° S, 93.81° W
Above JamshedpurAbove the antipode
Jamshedpur
22.80° N, 86.19° E · about 200 m above sea level · 1,339,438 people
Antipode
22.80° S, 93.81° W
What is there
The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,880 m below the surface
Nearest dry land
1,236 km from the antipode, on the coast of Chile
Nearest town
Hanga Roa, Chile · 1,645 km from the antipode
Nearest big city
Callao · 2,132 km from the antipode
Sandwich verdict
SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
Nearest exact spot
1,624 km away, near Jaisalmer, India ⇄ near Hanga Roa, Chile

Can you make an Earth sandwich from Jamshedpur?

No, not from Jamshedpur itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,236 km from the nearest dry land (Chile), where the sea floor lies about 3,880 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).

The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,624 km from Jamshedpur, 25 km from Jaisalmer, India. Its other slice would go down 20 km from Hanga Roa, Chile.

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.