Asia · Land
Kazakhstan
47.82134, 66.90421
47°49'16.8"N 66°54'15.2"E
- Nearest listed city
- 496 km (308 mi) SW of Astana, Kazakhstan
- Distance
- Latitude band
- Temperate
- Sun time
- UTC+4
- Opposite side
- Pacific Ocean (-47.82134, -113.09579)
Drop a pin anywhere on Earth with odds set by true area. Stay on land, go to sea, lock the draw to one country, or pick a spot inside a radius of your own point. Each pin lists coordinates, the nearest city, and map links.
Asia · Land
47.82134, 66.90421
47°49'16.8"N 66°54'15.2"E
Most random coordinate scripts pick a latitude between -90 and 90 and a longitude between -180 and 180. Plot a few thousand of those points and the Arctic turns solid. Lines of longitude squeeze together toward the poles, so equal strips of latitude cover less and less ground.
| Latitude band | Plain random numbers | Real share of Earth | Share of land |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 to 30 degrees, north and south | 33.3% | 50.0% | 44.8% |
| 30 to 60 degrees | 33.3% | 36.6% | 35.1% |
| 60 to 90 degrees | 33.3% | 13.4% | 20.1% |
Plain random numbers send one pin in three above 60 degrees, about 2.5 times the fair rate. This generator corrects the math. The standard fix, for anyone writing their own script, looks like this with u and v as random numbers from 0 to 1:
latitude = asin(2u - 1) // in degrees
longitude = 360v - 180The arcsine spreads latitudes by the area each one covers. Nothing else changes.
Every square kilometer has the same odds, so a land draw favors big countries. Ten places take 56% of all pins. These figures come from the same grid the generator draws from.
Three results surprise most people:
Around a point draws inside a circle you set. People use it to pick a walk, a photo spot, or a weekend drive they would never choose on their own.
Pins spread evenly by area, not by distance. Half of them land past 71% of your radius, because the outer ring of a circle holds more ground than the middle. With a 10 km radius, half your pins land beyond 7 km.
Check the pin before you go. The generator knows land from water, not a park from a backyard. Pins land on private property, motorways, military sites, and cliff edges. The radius measures a straight line, so a 5 km pin across a river might take 15 km to reach. Pick a public spot near the pin if the exact point fails.
The page never asks for your device location. The point you paste goes to the Toolexe server to run the draw, and the generator keeps no record of it.
Land, Skip Antarctica, 1 pin. Hide the readout, look at the dot on the map, and guess the country. Open the map link to check your answer.
Anywhere, 25 pins, copy as GeoJSON. Plain numbers miss the cases that break code, so run Around a point at 0, 180 with a 500 km radius. Those pins straddle the date line, where bounding boxes and marker clusters often fail.
Lock a country, draw 5 pins, and read the nearest city line. Pins fall by area, so most of Canada lands far from any road. Treat the result as a region to research, not a booking.
Draw on land, then open OpenStreetMap at the pin for town names and terrain. Inventing a place instead? Use the random setting generator or the random town generator.
| Decimals | Example latitude | Ground distance at the equator | Good enough to find |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47.8 | 11 km | A city |
| 2 | 47.82 | 1.1 km | A neighborhood |
| 3 | 47.821 | 111 m | A street block |
| 4 | 47.8213 | 11 m | A building |
| 5 | 47.82134 | 1.1 m | A person standing there |
Sun time divides longitude by 15 degrees per hour. The result tells you roughly when noon arrives at the pin, which differs from local law. All of China runs on UTC+8 while its far west sits near UTC+5 by the sun. Use a time zone lookup for anything with a deadline.
The band line only reads the latitude: tropics inside 23.44 degrees, polar past 66.56. Altitude and ocean currents do the rest. Quito sits in the tropics and stays cool year round.
The server splits Earth into 0.25 degree cells, keeps the cells matching your filters, and weights each one by true area. A secure random number picks a cell, then a spot inside the cell. Cells near the poles get no bonus, so Greenland comes up as often as its real size earns.
Water covers 71 percent of the surface, so Anywhere sends most pins to sea. Set Surface to Land and the draw stays on dry ground. The land check runs on a grid about 28 km wide, so a Land pin on a shoreline sometimes shows up offshore.
Pick Around a point, paste your coordinates, set a radius of up to 5,000 km, and press Drop pins. The page never reads your device location, so you choose what to share. Right-click your spot in Google Maps and click the coordinates at the top of the menu to copy them.
Use the Country menu, which lists 229 countries and territories. Big countries behave well. Tiny ones hold one or two grid cells, so pins repeat the same small area and some land in nearby water.
Five decimal places, about 1 meter on the ground. The coordinates are exact, because they are random numbers. The labels are coarser: country, sea, and nearest city come from lookups at the resolution listed in the limits section.
Draw up to 25 pins at once, then copy the batch as plain coordinates, CSV, or GeoJSON. GeoJSON lists longitude before latitude, as the format requires, so geojson.io and QGIS read the file without changes.
This page now draws real places. For invented settings, the random setting generator covers story locations, and the random town generator names fictional towns.