Geographical Center of Earth

Geographical Center of Earth


İskilip, Turkey (TR)
The geographical center of Earth is the geometric center of all land surfaces on Earth. More strictly, it is the superficial barycenter of the mass distribution produced by treating each land region as an area of a thin shell of uniform density and approximating the geoid with a sphere. The center is inside the planet but can be projected to the closest point on the surface. In 2003, this was projected to be in İskilip, Turkey.
The geographical center of Earth is the geometric center of all land surfaces on Earth. More strictly, it is the superficial barycenter of the mass distribution produced by treating each land region as an area of a thin shell of uniform density and approximating the geoid with a sphere. The center is inside the planet but can be projected to the closest point on the surface. In 2003, this was projected to be in İskilip, Turkey.
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Links: en.wikipedia.org
By: kkeps

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