Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Rome
Antipode finder · Italy
The antipode of
Rome.
Draw a straight line from Rome (41.89° N, 12.51° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 41.89° S, 167.49° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 717 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Rome
- 41.89° N, 12.51° E · about 40 m above sea level · 2,318,895 people
- Antipode
- 41.89° S, 167.49° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,680 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 717 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Waitangi, New Zealand · 773 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 1,622 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 739 km away, near Les Matelles, France ⇄ 37 km from Waitangi, New Zealand
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Rome?
No, not from Rome itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 717 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 4,680 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 739 km from Rome, 1 km from Les Matelles, France. Its other slice would go down 37 km from Waitangi, New Zealand.
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.