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The approximate diameter of the earth is 3,960 miles. What is the distance around the equator?

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in km it’s 40,075 km
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It is about 24,901 miles (40,075 km).

From pole-to-pole, the meridional circumference, Earth is only 24,860 miles (40,008 km) around. This shape, caused by the flattening at the poles, is called an oblate spheroid.

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