Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Taichung
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The antipode of
Taichung.
Draw a straight line from Taichung (24.15° N, 120.68° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 24.15° S, 59.32° W, on dry land in Paraguay, 70 km from Villa General Guemes, Argentina. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Taichung
- 24.15° N, 120.68° E · about 120 m above sea level · 2,850,285 people
- Antipode
- 24.15° S, 59.32° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Paraguay
- Nearest town
- Villa General Guemes, Argentina · 70 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Asunción · 211 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +240 m (120 m here, 120 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Taichung?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Taichung 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 Taichung and have a friend put one down 70 km from Villa General Guemes, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 240 m: Taichung sits about 120 m above sea level and the other slice about 120 m above sea level.
Taichung 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.