Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Jinan
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Jinan.
Draw a straight line from Jinan (36.67° N, 117.00° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 36.67° S, 63.00° W, on dry land in Argentina, 10 km from Salliqueló. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Jinan
- 36.67° N, 117.00° E · about 40 m above sea level · 4,335,989 people
- Antipode
- 36.67° S, 63.00° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Argentina
- Nearest town
- Salliqueló, Argentina · 10 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Buenos Aires · 476 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +160 m (40 m here, 120 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Jinan?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Jinan 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 Jinan and have a friend put one down 10 km from Salliqueló, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 160 m: Jinan sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 120 m above sea level.
Jinan is on the China & Mongolia ↔ Argentina & Chile 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.