Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Pointe-Noire
Antipode finder · Republic of the Congo
The antipode of
Pointe-Noire.
Draw a straight line from Pointe-Noire (4.78° S, 11.86° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 4.78° N, 168.14° W, in the North Pacific Ocean, 662 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Pointe-Noire
- 4.78° S, 11.86° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,032,000 people
- Antipode
- 4.78° N, 168.14° W
- What is there
- The North Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,640 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 662 km from the antipode, on the coast of the United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Nearest town
- Napari Village, Kiribati · 975 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 4,957 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,231 km away, 202 km from Lodja, Democratic Republic of the Congo ⇄ near Banana, Kiribati
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Pointe-Noire?
No, not from Pointe-Noire itself. The other slice would land in the North Pacific Ocean, 662 km from the nearest dry land (the United States Minor Outlying Islands), where the sea floor lies about 5,640 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,231 km from Pointe-Noire, 202 km from Lodja, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its other slice would go down 4 km from Banana, Kiribati.
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.