Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Quito
Antipode finder · Ecuador
The antipode of
Quito.
Draw a straight line from Quito (0.23° S, 78.52° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 0.23° N, 101.48° E, on dry land in Indonesia, 32 km from Pekanbaru. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Quito
- 0.23° S, 78.52° W · about 2,840 m above sea level · 2,781,641 people
- Antipode
- 0.23° N, 101.48° E
- What is there
- Dry land in Indonesia
- Nearest town
- Pekanbaru, Indonesia · 32 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Pekanbaru · 32 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +2,880 m (2,840 m here, 40 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Quito?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Quito 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 Quito and have a friend put one down 32 km from Pekanbaru, Indonesia at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 2,880 m: Quito sits about 2,840 m above sea level and the other slice about 40 m above sea level.
Quito is on the Indonesia & Malaysia ↔ Colombia, Ecuador & the Amazon corridor. Its guide lists where every city on both sides lands and how to make an Earth sandwich there.
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.