Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Mbuji-Mayi
Antipode finder · Democratic Republic of the Congo
The antipode of
Mbuji-Mayi.
Draw a straight line from Mbuji-Mayi (6.14° S, 23.59° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 6.14° N, 156.41° W, in the North Pacific Ocean, 404 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Kiribati. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Mbuji-Mayi
- 6.14° S, 23.59° E · about 680 m above sea level · 2,101,332 people
- Antipode
- 6.14° N, 156.41° W
- What is there
- The North Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,760 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 404 km from the antipode, on the coast of Kiribati
- Nearest town
- Napari Village, Kiribati · 413 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Los Angeles · 5,000 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 472 km away, 199 km from Lodja, Democratic Republic of the Congo ⇄ near Banana Village, Kiribati
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Mbuji-Mayi?
No, not from Mbuji-Mayi itself. The other slice would land in the North Pacific Ocean, 404 km from the nearest dry land (Kiribati), where the sea floor lies about 4,760 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 472 km from Mbuji-Mayi, 199 km from Lodja, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its other slice would go down 6 km from Banana Village, Kiribati.
Mbuji-Mayi is on the The South Pacific ↔ the Sahara & Sahel 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.