Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Manaus
Antipode finder · Brazil
The antipode of
Manaus.
Draw a straight line from Manaus (3.10° S, 60.02° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 3.10° N, 119.97° E, in the Celebes Sea, 169 km from the nearest dry land. A sloppy Earth sandwich is possible.
- Manaus
- 3.10° S, 60.02° W · about 40 m above sea level · 2,219,580 people
- Antipode
- 3.10° N, 119.97° E
- What is there
- The Celebes Sea; the sea floor there lies about 4,040 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 169 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Ligayan, Philippines · 181 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Zamboanga · 483 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SLOPPY dry land within 200 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Manaus?
Nearly: a sloppy-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Manaus lies in the Celebes Sea, 169 km from the nearest dry land. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 200 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Manaus sloppy, so bread in Manaus and bread near Ligayan, Philippines still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
Manaus is on the The Philippines ↔ Brazil & Bolivia 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.