Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Lima
Antipode finder · Peru
The antipode of
Lima.
Draw a straight line from Lima (12.04° S, 77.03° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 12.04° N, 102.97° E, on dry land in Cambodia, 27 km from Anlong Reab. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Lima
- 12.04° S, 77.03° W · about 40 m above sea level · 7,737,002 people
- Antipode
- 12.04° N, 102.97° E
- What is there
- Dry land in Cambodia
- Nearest town
- Anlong Reab, Cambodia · 27 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Phnom Penh · 218 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +800 m (40 m here, 760 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Lima?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Lima 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 Lima and have a friend put one down 27 km from Anlong Reab, Cambodia at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 800 m: Lima sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 760 m above sea level.
Lima is on the Vietnam, Cambodia & Thailand ↔ Peru 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.