Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Qingyang
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Qingyang.
Draw a straight line from Qingyang (35.71° N, 107.64° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 35.71° S, 72.36° W, on dry land in Chile, 15 km from Empedrado. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Qingyang
- 35.71° N, 107.64° E · about 1,320 m above sea level · 2,125,400 people
- Antipode
- 35.71° S, 72.36° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Chile
- Nearest town
- Empedrado, Chile · 15 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Santiago · 295 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +1,680 m (1,320 m here, 360 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Qingyang?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Qingyang 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 Qingyang and have a friend put one down 15 km from Empedrado, Chile at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 1,680 m: Qingyang sits about 1,320 m above sea level and the other slice about 360 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.