Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / La Paz
Antipode finder · Bolivia
The antipode of
La Paz.
Draw a straight line from La Paz (16.50° S, 68.15° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 16.50° N, 111.85° E, in the South China Sea, 12 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of China. A deli-grade Earth sandwich is possible.
- La Paz
- 16.50° S, 68.15° W · about 3,960 m above sea level · 2,004,652 people
- Antipode
- 16.50° N, 111.85° E
- What is there
- The South China Sea; the sea floor there lies about 760 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 12 km from the antipode, on the coast of China
- Nearest town
- Hoàng Sa, Vietnam · 64 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Sanya · 316 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- DELI dry land within 50 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from La Paz?
Nearly: a deli-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of La Paz lies in the South China Sea, 12 km from the nearest dry land in China. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 50 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates La Paz deli, so bread in La Paz and bread near Hoàng Sa, Vietnam still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
La Paz 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.