Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Trujillo
Antipode finder · Peru
The antipode of
Trujillo.
Draw a straight line from Trujillo (8.12° S, 79.03° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 8.12° N, 100.97° E, in the Gulf of Thailand, 38 km from the nearest dry land. A deli-grade Earth sandwich is possible.
- Trujillo
- 8.12° S, 79.03° W · about 40 m above sea level · 1,067,700 people
- Antipode
- 8.12° N, 100.97° E
- What is there
- The Gulf of Thailand; the sea floor there lies about 40 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 38 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Ban Na Saton, Thailand · 73 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Kuala Lumpur · 559 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- DELI dry land within 50 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Trujillo?
Nearly: a deli-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Trujillo lies in the Gulf of Thailand, 38 km from the nearest dry land. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 50 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Trujillo deli, so bread in Trujillo and bread near Ban Na Saton, Thailand still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
Trujillo is on the Vietnam, Cambodia & Thailand ↔ Peru 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.