Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Zamboanga
Antipode finder · Philippines
The antipode of
Zamboanga.
Draw a straight line from Zamboanga (6.91° N, 122.07° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 6.91° S, 57.93° W, on dry land in Brazil, 79 km from Jacareacanga. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Zamboanga
- 6.91° N, 122.07° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,018,849 people
- Antipode
- 6.91° S, 57.93° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Brazil
- Nearest town
- Jacareacanga, Brazil · 79 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Manaus · 483 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +240 m (40 m here, 200 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Zamboanga?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Zamboanga 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 Zamboanga and have a friend put one down 79 km from Jacareacanga, Brazil at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 240 m: Zamboanga sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 200 m above sea level.
Zamboanga is on the The Philippines ↔ Brazil & Bolivia 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.