Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Qingyuan
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Qingyuan.
Draw a straight line from Qingyuan (23.70° N, 113.03° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 23.70° S, 66.97° W, on dry land in Argentina, 70 km from Susques. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Qingyuan
- 23.70° N, 113.03° E · about 120 m above sea level · 1,738,424 people
- Antipode
- 23.70° S, 66.97° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Argentina
- Nearest town
- Susques, Argentina · 70 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra · 766 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +4,480 m (120 m here, 4,360 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Qingyuan?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Qingyuan 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 Qingyuan and have a friend put one down 70 km from Susques, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 4,480 m: Qingyuan sits about 120 m above sea level and the other slice about 4,360 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.