Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Maracaibo
Antipode finder · Venezuela
The antipode of
Maracaibo.
Draw a straight line from Maracaibo (10.64° N, 71.61° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 10.64° S, 108.39° E, in the Indian Ocean, 293 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Australia. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Maracaibo
- 10.64° N, 71.61° W · about 40 m above sea level · 1,752,602 people
- Antipode
- 10.64° S, 108.39° E
- What is there
- The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,480 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 293 km from the antipode, on the coast of Australia
- Nearest town
- Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island · 297 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Bandung · 422 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 316 km away, near Santa María de Caparo, Venezuela ⇄ near Cimerak, Indonesia
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Maracaibo?
No, not from Maracaibo itself. The other slice would land in the Indian Ocean, 293 km from the nearest dry land (Australia), where the sea floor lies about 5,480 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 316 km from Maracaibo, 19 km from Santa María de Caparo, Venezuela. Its other slice would go down 8 km from Cimerak, Indonesia.
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.