Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Montevideo
Antipode finder · Uruguay
The antipode of
Montevideo.
Draw a straight line from Montevideo (34.90° S, 56.19° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 34.90° N, 123.81° E, in the Yellow Sea, 127 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of South Korea. A sloppy Earth sandwich is possible.
- Montevideo
- 34.90° S, 56.19° W · about 40 m above sea level · 1,270,737 people
- Antipode
- 34.90° N, 123.81° E
- What is there
- The Yellow Sea; the sea floor there lies about 120 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 127 km from the antipode, on the coast of South Korea
- Nearest town
- Sinan, South Korea · 210 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Gwangju · 284 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SLOPPY dry land within 200 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Montevideo?
Nearly: a sloppy-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Montevideo lies in the Yellow Sea, 127 km from the nearest dry land in South Korea. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 200 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Montevideo sloppy, so bread in Montevideo and bread near Sinan, South Korea still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
Montevideo is on the Okinawa & Jeju ↔ southern Brazil 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.