Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Yaoundé
Antipode finder · Cameroon
The antipode of
Yaoundé.
Draw a straight line from Yaoundé (3.87° N, 11.52° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 3.87° S, 168.48° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 247 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Yaoundé
- 3.87° N, 11.52° E · about 760 m above sea level · 1,299,369 people
- Antipode
- 3.87° S, 168.48° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,160 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 247 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Atafu Village, Tokelau · 685 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 4,047 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,146 km away, near Aguié, Niger ⇄ near Safotu, Samoa
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Yaoundé?
No, not from Yaoundé itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 247 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 5,160 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,146 km from Yaoundé, 14 km from Aguié, Niger. Its other slice would go down 8 km from Safotu, Samoa.
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.