Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Santiago de los Caballeros
Antipode finder · Dominican Republic
The antipode of
Santiago de los Caballeros.
Draw a straight line from Santiago de los Caballeros (19.45° N, 70.69° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 19.45° S, 109.31° E, in the Indian Ocean, 557 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Australia. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Santiago de los Caballeros
- 19.45° N, 70.69° W · about 360 m above sea level · 1,200,000 people
- Antipode
- 19.45° S, 109.31° E
- What is there
- The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,440 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 557 km from the antipode, on the coast of Australia
- Nearest town
- Exmouth, Australia · 571 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Semarang · 1,390 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,258 km away, near El Regalo, Venezuela ⇄ near Pacitan, Indonesia
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Santiago de los Caballeros?
No, not from Santiago de los Caballeros itself. The other slice would land in the Indian Ocean, 557 km from the nearest dry land (Australia), where the sea floor lies about 4,440 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,258 km from Santiago de los Caballeros, 28 km from El Regalo, Venezuela. Its other slice would go down 13 km from Pacitan, Indonesia.
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.