Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Matola
Antipode finder · Mozambique
The antipode of
Matola.
Draw a straight line from Matola (25.96° S, 32.46° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 25.96° N, 147.54° W, in the North Pacific Ocean, 1,028 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of the United States. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Matola
- 25.96° S, 32.46° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,198,988 people
- Antipode
- 25.96° N, 147.54° W
- What is there
- The North Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,240 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,028 km from the antipode, on the coast of the United States
- Nearest town
- Laupāhoehoe, United States · 1,030 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Los Angeles · 2,949 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,029 km away, 50 km from Gweta, Botswana ⇄ near Pepeekeo, United States
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Matola?
No, not from Matola itself. The other slice would land in the North Pacific Ocean, 1,028 km from the nearest dry land (the United States), where the sea floor lies about 5,240 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,029 km from Matola, 50 km from Gweta, Botswana. Its other slice would go down 3 km from Pepeekeo, United States.
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.