Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Valencia
Antipode finder · Venezuela
The antipode of
Valencia.
Draw a straight line from Valencia (10.16° N, 68.00° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 10.16° S, 112.00° E, in the Indian Ocean, 198 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Indonesia. A sloppy Earth sandwich is possible.
- Valencia
- 10.16° N, 68.00° W · about 520 m above sea level · 1,619,470 people
- Antipode
- 10.16° S, 112.00° E
- What is there
- The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,080 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 198 km from the antipode, on the coast of Indonesia
- Nearest town
- Pucanglaban, Indonesia · 211 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Surabaya · 334 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SLOPPY dry land within 200 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Valencia?
Nearly: a sloppy-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Valencia lies in the Indian Ocean, 198 km from the nearest dry land in Indonesia. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 200 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Valencia sloppy, so bread in Valencia and bread near Pucanglaban, Indonesia still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
Valencia is on the Indonesia & Malaysia ↔ Colombia, Ecuador & the Amazon 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.