Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Manila
Antipode finder · Philippines
The antipode of
Manila.
Draw a straight line from Manila (14.60° N, 120.98° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 14.60° S, 59.02° W, on dry land in Brazil, 57 km from Conquista d'Oeste. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Manila
- 14.60° N, 120.98° E · at about sea level · 1,600,000 people
- Antipode
- 14.60° S, 59.02° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Brazil
- Nearest town
- Conquista d'Oeste, Brazil · 57 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra · 568 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +640 m (-40 m here, 680 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Manila?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Manila 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 Manila and have a friend put one down 57 km from Conquista d'Oeste, Brazil at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 640 m: Manila sits at about sea level and the other slice about 680 m above sea level.
Manila 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.