Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Rabat
Antipode finder · Morocco
The antipode of
Rabat.
Draw a straight line from Rabat (34.01° N, 6.83° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 34.01° S, 173.17° E, in the South Pacific Ocean, 44 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of New Zealand. A deli-grade Earth sandwich is possible.
- Rabat
- 34.01° N, 6.83° W · at about sea level · 1,655,753 people
- Antipode
- 34.01° S, 173.17° E
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 1,400 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 44 km from the antipode, on the coast of New Zealand
- Nearest town
- Taipa, New Zealand · 113 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 347 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- DELI dry land within 50 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Rabat?
Nearly: a deli-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Rabat lies in the South Pacific Ocean, 44 km from the nearest dry land in New Zealand. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 50 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Rabat deli, so bread in Rabat and bread near Taipa, New Zealand still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
Rabat is on the Spain & Portugal ↔ New Zealand 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.