Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Mogadishu
Antipode finder · Somalia
The antipode of
Mogadishu.
Draw a straight line from Mogadishu (2.04° N, 45.34° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 2.04° S, 134.66° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 906 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of French Polynesia. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Mogadishu
- 2.04° N, 45.34° E · about 120 m above sea level · 2,587,183 people
- Antipode
- 2.04° S, 134.66° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,520 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 906 km from the antipode, on the coast of French Polynesia
- Nearest town
- Taiohae, French Polynesia · 973 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Zapopan · 4,242 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 957 km away, near Metahāra, Ethiopia ⇄ near Taiohae, French Polynesia
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Mogadishu?
No, not from Mogadishu itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 906 km from the nearest dry land (French Polynesia), where the sea floor lies about 4,520 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 957 km from Mogadishu, 13 km from Metahāra, Ethiopia. Its other slice would go down 16 km from Taiohae, French Polynesia.
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.