Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Lüliang
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Lüliang.
Draw a straight line from Lüliang (37.52° N, 111.14° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 37.52° S, 68.86° W, on dry land in Argentina, 15 km from Rincón de Los Sauces. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Lüliang
- 37.52° N, 111.14° E · about 1,080 m above sea level · 3,346,500 people
- Antipode
- 37.52° S, 68.86° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Argentina
- Nearest town
- Rincón de Los Sauces, Argentina · 15 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Santiago · 480 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +1,920 m (1,080 m here, 840 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Lüliang?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Lüliang 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 Lüliang and have a friend put one down 15 km from Rincón de Los Sauces, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 1,920 m: Lüliang sits about 1,080 m above sea level and the other slice about 840 m above sea level.
Lüliang 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.