Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Shenzhen
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Shenzhen.
Draw a straight line from Shenzhen (22.55° N, 114.07° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 22.55° S, 65.93° W, on dry land in Argentina, 27 km from Rinconada. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Shenzhen
- 22.55° N, 114.07° E · about 120 m above sea level · 17,494,398 people
- Antipode
- 22.55° S, 65.93° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Argentina
- Nearest town
- Rinconada, Argentina · 27 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra · 602 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +3,920 m (120 m here, 3,800 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Shenzhen?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Shenzhen 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 Shenzhen and have a friend put one down 27 km from Rinconada, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 3,920 m: Shenzhen sits about 120 m above sea level and the other slice about 3,800 m above sea level.
Shenzhen is on the China & Mongolia ↔ Argentina & Chile 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.