Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Nizhniy Novgorod
Antipode finder · Russia
The antipode of
Nizhniy Novgorod.
Draw a straight line from Nizhniy Novgorod (56.33° N, 44.00° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 56.33° S, 136.00° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,917 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Antarctica. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Nizhniy Novgorod
- 56.33° N, 44.00° E · about 120 m above sea level · 1,259,013 people
- Antipode
- 56.33° S, 136.00° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,080 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,917 km from the antipode, on the coast of Antarctica
- Nearest town
- Waitangi, New Zealand · 3,142 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 4,218 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 3,057 km away, near Réville, France ⇄ 730 km from Waitangi, New Zealand
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Nizhniy Novgorod?
No, not from Nizhniy Novgorod itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,917 km from the nearest dry land (Antarctica), where the sea floor lies about 3,080 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 3,057 km from Nizhniy Novgorod, 7 km from Réville, France. Its other slice would go down 730 km from Waitangi, New Zealand.
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.