Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Pekanbaru
Antipode finder · Indonesia
The antipode of
Pekanbaru.
Draw a straight line from Pekanbaru (0.52° N, 101.44° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 0.52° S, 78.56° W, on dry land in Ecuador, 1 km from Machachi. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Pekanbaru
- 0.52° N, 101.44° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,167,599 people
- Antipode
- 0.52° S, 78.56° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Ecuador
- Nearest town
- Machachi, Ecuador · 1 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Quito · 32 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +3,360 m (40 m here, 3,320 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Pekanbaru?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Pekanbaru 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 Pekanbaru and have a friend put one down 1 km from Machachi, Ecuador at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 3,360 m: Pekanbaru sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 3,320 m above sea level.
Pekanbaru 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.