Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Recife
Antipode finder · Brazil
The antipode of
Recife.
Draw a straight line from Recife (8.05° S, 34.88° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 8.05° N, 145.12° E, in the North Pacific Ocean, 88 km from the nearest dry land. A sloppy Earth sandwich is possible.
- Recife
- 8.05° S, 34.88° W · about 40 m above sea level · 1,653,461 people
- Antipode
- 8.05° N, 145.12° E
- What is there
- The North Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 1,080 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 88 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Faraulep, Micronesia · 90 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Davao · 2,153 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SLOPPY dry land within 200 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Recife?
Nearly: a sloppy-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Recife lies in the North Pacific Ocean, 88 km from the nearest dry land. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 200 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Recife sloppy, so bread in Recife and bread near Faraulep, Micronesia still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
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.