Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Kuala Lumpur
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The antipode of
Kuala Lumpur.
Draw a straight line from Kuala Lumpur (3.14° N, 101.69° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 3.14° S, 78.31° W, on dry land in Ecuador, 23 km from General Leonidas Plaza Gutiérrez. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Kuala Lumpur
- 3.14° N, 101.69° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,453,975 people
- Antipode
- 3.14° S, 78.31° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Ecuador
- Nearest town
- General Leonidas Plaza Gutiérrez, Ecuador · 23 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Guayaquil · 204 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +1,120 m (40 m here, 1,080 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Kuala Lumpur?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Kuala Lumpur 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 Kuala Lumpur and have a friend put one down 23 km from General Leonidas Plaza Gutiérrez, Ecuador at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 1,120 m: Kuala Lumpur sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 1,080 m above sea level.
Kuala Lumpur is on the Indonesia & Malaysia ↔ Colombia, Ecuador & the Amazon 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.