Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Sofia
Antipode finder · Bulgaria
The antipode of
Sofia.
Draw a straight line from Sofia (42.70° N, 23.32° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 42.70° S, 156.68° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,552 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Sofia
- 42.70° N, 23.32° E · about 680 m above sea level · 1,152,556 people
- Antipode
- 42.70° S, 156.68° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,840 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,552 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Waitangi, New Zealand · 1,611 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 2,513 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,566 km away, near Branoux-les-Taillades, France ⇄ 53 km from Waitangi, New Zealand
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Sofia?
No, not from Sofia itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,552 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 4,840 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,566 km from Sofia, under 1 km from Branoux-les-Taillades, France. Its other slice would go down 53 km from Waitangi, New Zealand.
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.