Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Putian
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Putian.
Draw a straight line from Putian (25.44° N, 119.01° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 25.44° S, 60.99° W, on dry land in Argentina, 67 km from Juan José Castelli. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Putian
- 25.44° N, 119.01° E · about 120 m above sea level · 1,539,389 people
- Antipode
- 25.44° S, 60.99° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Argentina
- Nearest town
- Juan José Castelli, Argentina · 67 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Asunción · 336 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +240 m (120 m here, 120 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Putian?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Putian 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 Putian and have a friend put one down 67 km from Juan José Castelli, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 240 m: Putian sits about 120 m above sea level and the other slice about 120 m above sea level.
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.