The Earth diameter at the equator is 43 km larger than at the poles. It's like t...

		ragazzina on Aug 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude The Earth diameter at the equator is 43 km larger than at the poles. It's like the Earth orbit: we learn in school that it's an ellipse, but we are never actually given a sense of the shape, and most of the drawings give a completely wrong idea.