Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Lagos
Antipode finder · Nigeria
The antipode of
Lagos.
Draw a straight line from Lagos (6.45° N, 3.39° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 6.45° S, 176.61° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 302 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Kiribati. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Lagos
- 6.45° N, 3.39° E · about 40 m above sea level · 15,388,000 people
- Antipode
- 6.45° S, 176.61° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,880 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 302 km from the antipode, on the coast of Kiribati
- Nearest town
- Atafu Village, Tokelau · 507 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 3,491 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 752 km away, near Tibiri, Niger ⇄ near Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Lagos?
No, not from Lagos itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 302 km from the nearest dry land (Kiribati), where the sea floor lies about 5,880 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 752 km from Lagos, 22 km from Tibiri, Niger. Its other slice would go down 9 km from Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna.
Lagos 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.