Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Pyongyang
Antipode finder · North Korea
The antipode of
Pyongyang.
Draw a straight line from Pyongyang (39.03° N, 125.75° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 39.03° S, 54.25° W, in the South Atlantic Ocean, 304 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Argentina. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Pyongyang
- 39.03° N, 125.75° E · about 40 m above sea level · 3,222,000 people
- Antipode
- 39.03° S, 54.25° W
- What is there
- The South Atlantic Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 1,720 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 304 km from the antipode, on the coast of Argentina
- Nearest town
- Villa Gesell, Argentina · 309 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Montevideo · 491 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 322 km away, 36 km from Yatou, China ⇄ 34 km from Villa Gesell, Argentina
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Pyongyang?
No, not from Pyongyang itself. The other slice would land in the South Atlantic Ocean, 304 km from the nearest dry land (Argentina), where the sea floor lies about 1,720 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 322 km from Pyongyang, 36 km from Yatou, China. Its other slice would go down 34 km from Villa Gesell, Argentina.
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.