Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Palembang
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The antipode of
Palembang.
Draw a straight line from Palembang (2.92° S, 104.75° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 2.92° N, 75.25° W, on dry land in Colombia, 3 km from Neiva. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Palembang
- 2.92° S, 104.75° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,801,367 people
- Antipode
- 2.92° N, 75.25° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Colombia
- Nearest town
- Neiva, Colombia · 3 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Cali · 152 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +560 m (40 m here, 520 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Palembang?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Palembang is one of the few large cities with dry land directly opposite it. The grid that verifies submissions rates the spot exact: put a slice down in Palembang and have a friend put one down 3 km from Neiva, Colombia at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 560 m: Palembang sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 520 m above sea level.
Palembang 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.