Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Maiduguri
Antipode finder · Nigeria
The antipode of
Maiduguri.
Draw a straight line from Maiduguri (11.85° N, 13.16° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 11.85° S, 166.84° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 146 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of the Cook Islands. A sloppy Earth sandwich is possible.
- Maiduguri
- 11.85° N, 13.16° E · about 360 m above sea level · 1,110,000 people
- Antipode
- 11.85° S, 166.84° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,480 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 146 km from the antipode, on the coast of the Cook Islands
- Nearest town
- Faleāsao, American Samoa · 392 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 3,333 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SLOPPY dry land within 200 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Maiduguri?
Nearly: a sloppy-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Maiduguri lies in the South Pacific Ocean, 146 km from the nearest dry land in the Cook Islands. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 200 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Maiduguri sloppy, so bread in Maiduguri and bread near Faleāsao, American Samoa still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
Maiduguri 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.