Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Medellín
Antipode finder · Colombia
The antipode of
Medellín.
Draw a straight line from Medellín (6.25° N, 75.57° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 6.25° S, 104.43° E, in the Indian Ocean, 38 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Indonesia. A deli-grade Earth sandwich is possible.
- Medellín
- 6.25° N, 75.57° W · about 2,040 m above sea level · 1,999,979 people
- Antipode
- 6.25° S, 104.43° E
- What is there
- The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 680 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 38 km from the antipode, on the coast of Indonesia
- Nearest town
- Kota Agung, Indonesia · 86 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Bandar Lampung · 129 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- DELI dry land within 50 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Medellín?
Nearly: a deli-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Medellín lies in the Indian Ocean, 38 km from the nearest dry land in Indonesia. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 50 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Medellín deli, so bread in Medellín and bread near Kota Agung, Indonesia still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
Medellín is on the Indonesia & Malaysia ↔ Colombia, Ecuador & the Amazon 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.