Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Zhongwei
Antipode finder · China
The antipode of
Zhongwei.
Draw a straight line from Zhongwei (37.51° N, 105.19° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 37.51° S, 74.81° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 100 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Chile. A sloppy Earth sandwich is possible.
- Zhongwei
- 37.51° N, 105.19° E · about 1,320 m above sea level · 1,174,600 people
- Antipode
- 37.51° S, 74.81° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,680 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 100 km from the antipode, on the coast of Chile
- Nearest town
- Lebu, Chile · 102 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Santiago · 587 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SLOPPY dry land within 200 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Zhongwei?
Nearly: a sloppy-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Zhongwei lies in the South Pacific Ocean, 100 km from the nearest dry land in Chile. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 200 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Zhongwei sloppy, so bread in Zhongwei and bread near Lebu, Chile still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
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.