Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Yongzhou
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Yongzhou.
Draw a straight line from Yongzhou (26.42° N, 111.61° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 26.42° S, 68.39° W, on dry land in Argentina, 106 km from Antofagasta de la Sierra. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Yongzhou
- 26.42° N, 111.61° E · about 120 m above sea level · 1,020,715 people
- Antipode
- 26.42° S, 68.39° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Argentina
- Nearest town
- Antofagasta de la Sierra, Argentina · 106 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Córdoba · 688 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +4,720 m (120 m here, 4,600 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Yongzhou?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Yongzhou 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 Yongzhou and have a friend put one down 106 km from Antofagasta de la Sierra, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 4,720 m: Yongzhou sits about 120 m above sea level and the other slice about 4,600 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.