Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Santo Domingo
Antipode finder · Dominican Republic
The antipode of
Santo Domingo.
Draw a straight line from Santo Domingo (18.47° N, 69.89° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 18.47° S, 110.11° E, in the Indian Ocean, 555 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Australia. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Santo Domingo
- 18.47° N, 69.89° W · at about sea level · 2,201,941 people
- Antipode
- 18.47° S, 110.11° E
- What is there
- The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,920 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 555 km from the antipode, on the coast of Australia
- Nearest town
- Exmouth, Australia · 569 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Semarang · 1,277 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,139 km away, 40 km from Santa Catalina, Venezuela ⇄ near Pacitan, Indonesia
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Santo Domingo?
No, not from Santo Domingo itself. The other slice would land in the Indian Ocean, 555 km from the nearest dry land (Australia), where the sea floor lies about 4,920 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,139 km from Santo Domingo, 40 km from Santa Catalina, Venezuela. Its other slice would go down 11 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.