Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Zhuzhou

Antipode finder · China

The antipode of
Zhuzhou.

Draw a straight line from Zhuzhou (27.83° N, 113.15° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 27.83° S, 66.85° W, on dry land in Argentina, 27 km from Belén. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.

Two globes: one centred on Zhuzhou, one centred on its antipode at 27.83° S, 66.85° W
Above ZhuzhouAbove the antipode
Zhuzhou
27.83° N, 113.15° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,129,687 people
Antipode
27.83° S, 66.85° W
What is there
Dry land in Argentina
Nearest town
Belén, Argentina · 27 km from the antipode
Nearest big city
Córdoba · 473 km from the antipode
Sandwich verdict
EXACT land lies opposite land
Elevation bonus
+1,040 m (40 m here, 1,000 m there)

Can you make an Earth sandwich from Zhuzhou?

Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Zhuzhou 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 Zhuzhou and have a friend put one down 27 km from Belén, Argentina at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 1,040 m: Zhuzhou sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 1,000 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.