Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Tripoli
Antipode finder · Libya
The antipode of
Tripoli.
Draw a straight line from Tripoli (32.89° N, 13.19° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 32.89° S, 166.81° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,126 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of New Zealand. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Tripoli
- 32.89° N, 13.19° E · at about sea level · 1,302,947 people
- Antipode
- 32.89° S, 166.81° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,560 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,126 km from the antipode, on the coast of New Zealand
- Nearest town
- Hicks Bay, New Zealand · 1,448 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 1,734 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,427 km away, near Totana, Spain ⇄ near Hicks Bay, New Zealand
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Tripoli?
No, not from Tripoli itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,126 km from the nearest dry land (New Zealand), where the sea floor lies about 5,560 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,427 km from Tripoli, 11 km from Totana, Spain. Its other slice would go down 26 km from Hicks Bay, 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.