Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Ludhiana

Antipode finder · India

The antipode of
Ludhiana.

Draw a straight line from Ludhiana (30.91° N, 75.85° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 30.91° S, 104.15° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 507 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Chile. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.

Two globes: one centred on Ludhiana, one centred on its antipode at 30.91° S, 104.15° W
Above LudhianaAbove the antipode
Ludhiana
30.91° N, 75.85° E · about 280 m above sea level · 1,618,879 people
Antipode
30.91° S, 104.15° W
What is there
The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,720 m below the surface
Nearest dry land
507 km from the antipode, on the coast of Chile
Nearest town
Hanga Roa, Chile · 662 km from the antipode
Nearest big city
Santiago · 3,152 km from the antipode
Sandwich verdict
SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
Nearest exact spot
651 km away, near Jaisalmer, India ⇄ near Hanga Roa, Chile

Can you make an Earth sandwich from Ludhiana?

No, not from Ludhiana itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 507 km from the nearest dry land (Chile), where the sea floor lies about 3,720 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).

The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 651 km from Ludhiana, 25 km from Jaisalmer, India. Its other slice would go down 20 km from Hanga Roa, Chile.

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.