Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Semarang
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The antipode of
Semarang.
Draw a straight line from Semarang (6.99° S, 110.42° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 6.99° N, 69.58° W, on dry land in Venezuela, 12 km from Elorza. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Semarang
- 6.99° S, 110.42° E · at about sea level · 1,694,740 people
- Antipode
- 6.99° N, 69.58° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Venezuela
- Nearest town
- Elorza, Venezuela · 12 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Barquisimeto · 342 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +80 m (-40 m here, 120 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Semarang?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Semarang is one of the few large cities with dry land directly opposite it. The grid that verifies submissions rates the spot exact: put a slice down in Semarang and have a friend put one down 12 km from Elorza, Venezuela at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 80 m: Semarang sits at about sea level and the other slice about 120 m above sea level.
Semarang is on the Indonesia & Malaysia ↔ Colombia, Ecuador & the Amazon corridor. Its guide lists where every city on both sides lands and how to make an Earth sandwich there.
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.