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IT IS INTERESTING TO KNOW
Is the Earth Perfectly Round?
No, the earth is not a perfect sphere. It's actually squashed in a bit at the
poles, and widest at the equator. The diameter of the earth, an imaginary
line drawn through the center of the earth from one side to the other, is
about 7,926 miles at the equator, but only about 7,900 miles from pole to
pole. The earth is more than 26 miles wider at the equator than it is at the
poles!
The term that mathematicians would use to describe the shape of the
earth is oblate spheroid.
Would you believe...
The earth actually has
four corners — points
where the surface of the
earth bulges slightly.
These corners are in
Ireland, and in the oceans
near Peru, South Africa,
and New Guinea!
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