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Padang Panjang (sometimes written as Padangpanjang, and spelt as Padang Pandjang in Dutch East Indies era, lit. ' long field ', Jawi: ڤادڠ ڤنجڠ ), is a city located at in the cool highlands of West Sumatra, around 80 Km inland from the provincial capital Padang
Posidonius calculated the Earth's circumference by reference to the position of the star Canopus.As explained by Cleomedes, Posidonius observed Canopus on but never above the horizon at Rhodes, while at Alexandria he saw it ascend as far as 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 degrees above the horizon (the meridian arc between the latitude of the two locales is actually 5 degrees 14 minutes).
1.280 km – span of the Golden Gate Bridge (distance between towers) [138] 1.609 km – 1 statute mile; 1.852 km – 1 nautical mile, equal to 1 arcminute of latitude at the surface of the Earth [139] 1.991 km – span of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge [140] 2.309 km – axial length of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world located in ...
With this value for R the meridian length of 1 degree of latitude on the sphere is 111.2 km (69.1 statute miles) (60.0 nautical miles). The length of one minute of latitude is 1.853 km (1.151 statute miles) (1.00 nautical miles), while the length of 1 second of latitude is 30.8 m or 101 feet (see nautical mile).
It covers an area of 51,213.33 km 2 (19,773.58 sq mi) and had a population of 1,448,360 according to the official estimates as at mid 2023. [ 2 ] Formally established on 12 November 2022 from the central and mountainous former part of the province of Papua , it is located on the central highlands of Western New Guinea , where it is the first ...
The actual length of the modern Great Wall is around 42,000 li (21,000 km or 13,000 mi), over 4 times the name's proverbially "immeasurable" length. [ citation needed ] The Chinese proverb appearing in chapter 64 of the Tao Te Ching and commonly rendered as "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" in fact refers to a thousand ...
It has a nearly round shape with the diameter varying between 11 and 18 km (6.8 and 11.2 mi) and giving an average value of 15 km (9.3 mi). [ 5 ] [ 14 ] The shores are winding and contain many small bays; there are many small sandy islands ( noko ), rocks and coral reefs off the coast with the size up to 600 m (2,000 ft). [ 3 ]
The population grew by 1.7 percent in 2020, with Baruga district growing the most (5.38 percent) while the Kambu district decreased the most, losing 0.9 percent of its population. The most densely populated district was the Kadia district with 5,488 people per square kilometer in 2023, while the least was Nambo.