Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Sharjah
Antipode finder · United Arab Emirates
The antipode of
Sharjah.
Draw a straight line from Sharjah (25.33° N, 55.41° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 25.33° S, 124.59° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 74 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Pitcairn. A sloppy Earth sandwich is possible.
- Sharjah
- 25.33° N, 55.41° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,800,000 people
- Antipode
- 25.33° S, 124.59° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,400 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 74 km from the antipode, on the coast of Pitcairn
- Nearest town
- Adamstown, Pitcairn · 556 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Callao · 5,182 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SLOPPY dry land within 200 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Sharjah?
Nearly: a sloppy-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Sharjah lies in the South Pacific Ocean, 74 km from the nearest dry land in Pitcairn. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 200 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Sharjah sloppy, so bread in Sharjah and bread near Adamstown, Pitcairn still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
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.