0 Question: How long is the equator? Keywords: earth, equator Asked by asiansupreme to Anil, Blanka, Cees, Emma, Mike on 4 Jul 2012.
Emma Trantham answered on 4 Jul 2012:
(I confess to looking this one up!) The equator is about 40,075 km long.
lilistocker commented on 5 Jul 2012:
However long the circumference of the earth is..
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Emma commented on 5 Jul 2012:
Yup although it is slightly complicated because the world isn’t quite a perfect sphere – because of gravity it is slightly squashed at the North and South Pole and bulges slightly in the middle around the equator!
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lilistocker commented on :
However long the circumference of the earth is..
Emma commented on :
Yup although it is slightly complicated because the world isn’t quite a perfect sphere – because of gravity it is slightly squashed at the North and South Pole and bulges slightly in the middle around the equator!