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The circumference of the earth (the distance around the Earth) is about 40,000 km.

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Answer:

True it is exactly 40,075 km

Step-by-step explanation:

The polar circumference is also close to 40,000 kilometres because the metre was originally defined to be one 10-millionth of the circumferential distance from pole to equator.

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True but to be exact its 40,075
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