Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Kananga
Antipode finder · Democratic Republic of the Congo
The antipode of
Kananga.
Draw a straight line from Kananga (5.90° S, 22.42° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 5.90° N, 157.58° W, in the North Pacific Ocean, 292 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Kiribati. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Kananga
- 5.90° S, 22.42° E · about 600 m above sea level · 1,247,168 people
- Antipode
- 5.90° N, 157.58° W
- What is there
- The North Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,360 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 292 km from the antipode, on the coast of Kiribati
- Nearest town
- Napari Village, Kiribati · 298 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Los Angeles · 5,113 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 434 km away, 202 km from Lodja, Democratic Republic of the Congo ⇄ near Banana, Kiribati
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Kananga?
No, not from Kananga itself. The other slice would land in the North Pacific Ocean, 292 km from the nearest dry land (Kiribati), where the sea floor lies about 4,360 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 434 km from Kananga, 202 km from Lodja, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its other slice would go down 4 km from Banana, Kiribati.
Kananga is on the The South Pacific ↔ the Sahara & Sahel 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.