Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Makassar
Antipode finder · Indonesia
The antipode of
Makassar.
Draw a straight line from Makassar (5.15° S, 119.43° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 5.15° N, 60.57° W, on dry land in Brazil, 76 km from Uiramutã. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Makassar
- 5.15° S, 119.43° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,474,393 people
- Antipode
- 5.15° N, 60.57° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Brazil
- Nearest town
- Uiramutã, Brazil · 76 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Caracas · 914 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +1,040 m (40 m here, 1,000 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Makassar?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Makassar 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 Makassar and have a friend put one down 76 km from Uiramutã, Brazil at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 1,040 m: Makassar sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 1,000 m above sea level.
Makassar is on the Indonesia & Malaysia ↔ Colombia, Ecuador & the Amazon 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.