Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Xuzhou
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Xuzhou.
Draw a straight line from Xuzhou (34.20° N, 117.28° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 34.20° S, 62.72° W, on dry land in Argentina, 6 km from Rufino. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Xuzhou
- 34.20° N, 117.28° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,253,991 people
- Antipode
- 34.20° S, 62.72° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Argentina
- Nearest town
- Rufino, Argentina · 6 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Córdoba · 340 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +160 m (40 m here, 120 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Xuzhou?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Xuzhou 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 Xuzhou and have a friend put one down 6 km from Rufino, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 160 m: Xuzhou sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 120 m above sea level.
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.