Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Rostov-on-Don
Antipode finder · Russia
The antipode of
Rostov-on-Don.
Draw a straight line from Rostov-on-Don (47.22° N, 39.71° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 47.22° S, 140.29° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,166 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Rostov-on-Don
- 47.22° N, 39.71° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,130,305 people
- Antipode
- 47.22° S, 140.29° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,080 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 2,166 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Adamstown, Pitcairn · 2,623 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 3,828 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 2,768 km away, near Branoux-les-Taillades, France ⇄ 53 km from Waitangi, New Zealand
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Rostov-on-Don?
No, not from Rostov-on-Don itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,166 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 5,080 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 2,768 km from Rostov-on-Don, under 1 km from Branoux-les-Taillades, France. Its other slice would go down 53 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.