The Equator: Which Countries Cross the Equator?

TRIBUNNEWS.COM – Earth It has two poles, namely a north pole and a south pole.

Earth is also divided into two hemispheres, the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.

The line that divides the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere is called the equator.

Citing a page Ministry of Education and Culture, go.id, khatulistiwa is an absorption word that comes from the Arabic language that is khat which means ‘line’ and al istiwa which means ‘straight’.

According to the Big Indonesian Dictionary (KBBI), the equator is an imaginary line around the earth, located across at zero degrees (which divides the earth into two equal hemispheres, namely the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere).

Not just planets Earth, all the planets have an equator, as well as the sun and other stars in the universe.

Any astronomical object that rotates about an axis will have the equator around the object exactly in the center when the axis of rotation is vertical.

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Where Equator Earth?

On a map or globe, the equator is marked with a latitude of 0 degrees.

On a globe, you see the equator as an outline around the center of the earth when its axis of rotation is held vertically.

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