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  2. Equator - Wikipedia

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    Countries and territories that are intersected by the equator (red) or the Prime Meridian (blue), which intersect at "Null Island". The Equator during the boreal winter, spanning from December to March. The equator is the circle of latitude that divides Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

  3. Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    It has been conjectured to have influenced people's views of the world: because it shows countries near the Equator as too small when compared to those of Europe and North America, it has been supposed to cause people to consider those countries as less important. [14] Mercator himself used the equal-area sinusoidal projection to show relative ...

  4. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Standard world projection for the NGS since 1998. 1904 Van der Grinten: Pseudoconic Compromise Alphons J. van der Grinten: Boundary is a circle. All parallels and meridians are circular arcs. Usually clipped near 80°N/S. Standard world projection of the NGS in 1922–1988. c. 150: Equidistant conic = simple conic: Conic Equidistant

  5. File:World map with equator.svg - Wikipedia

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    Talk:List of common carrier freight railroads in the United States; Talk:List of countries by rail transport network size; Talk:List of countries by rail usage; Talk:List of metro systems; Talk:List of railway companies in Japan; Talk:List of railway lines in China; Talk:List of railway stations in Japan; Talk:List of railway stations in Japan: K-L

  6. List of countries and dependencies by area - Wikipedia

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    Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.

  7. List of countries by latitude - Wikipedia

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    Latitude Locations 90° N North Pole: 75° N: Arctic Ocean; Russia; northern Canada; Greenland: 60° N: Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; major parts of Nordic countries in EU; St. Petersburg, Russia; southern Alaska United States; southern border of the Yukon and the Northwest territories in Canada; Shetland, UK (Scotland)

  8. Equirectangular projection - Wikipedia

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    Equirectangular projection of the world; the standard parallel is the equator (plate carrée projection). Equirectangular projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation and with the standard parallels lying on the equator True-colour satellite image of Earth in equirectangular projection Height map of planet Earth at 2km per pixel, including oceanic bathymetry information, normalized as 8 ...

  9. Geographical zone - Wikipedia

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    Both philosophers theorized the Earth divided into three types of climatic zones based on their distance from the equator. Like Parmeneides, thinking that the area near the equator was too hot for habitation, Aristotle dubbed the region around the equator (from 23.5° N to 23.5° S) the "Torrid Zone."