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  2. Equator - Wikipedia

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    The Equator during the boreal winter, spanning from December to March. The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres. On Earth, the Equator is an imaginary line located at 0 degrees latitude, about 40,075 km (24,901 mi) in circumference, halfway between the North and South ...

  3. Tropics - Wikipedia

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    World map with the intertropical zone highlighted in crimson Areas of the world with tropical climates. The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at 23°26′09.9″ (or 23.43609°) N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at 23°26′09.9″ (or 23.43609°) S.

  4. Hemispheres of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The division of Earth by the Equator and the prime meridian Map roughly depicting the Eastern and Western hemispheres. In geography and cartography, hemispheres of Earth are any division of the globe into two equal halves (hemispheres), typically divided into northern and southern halves by the Equator and into western and eastern halves by the Prime meridian.

  5. Southern Hemisphere - Wikipedia

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    The Southern Hemisphere is highlighted in yellow. The hemispheres appear to be unequal in this image because Antarctica is not shown. The Southern Hemisphere is the half ( hemisphere) of Earth that is south of the Equator. It contains all or parts of five continents [ 1] (the whole of Antarctica, the whole of Australia, about 90% of South ...

  6. Earth's circumference - Wikipedia

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    Geodesy. Earth's circumference is the distance around Earth. Measured around the equator, it is 40,075.017 km (24,901.461 mi). Measured passing through the poles, the circumference is 40,007.863 km (24,859.734 mi). [ 1] Measurement of Earth's circumference has been important to navigation since ancient times. The first known scientific ...

  7. 60th parallel north - Wikipedia

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    Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The 60th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 60 degrees north of Earth 's equator. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean . Although it lies approximately twice as far away from the Equator as from the North Pole, the 60th parallel is half as long as ...

  8. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Equal-area. Walter Behrmann. Cylindrical equal-area projection with standard parallels at 30°N/S and an aspect ratio of (3/4)π ≈ 2.356. 2002. Hobo–Dyer. Cylindrical. Equal-area. Mick Dyer. Cylindrical equal-area projection with standard parallels at 37.5°N/S and an aspect ratio of 1.977.

  9. 43rd parallel north - Wikipedia

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    The 43rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 43 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean . The South Dakota-Nebraska border. On 21 June the sun averages, with negligible variance, its local maximum, 70.83 degrees in the sky.