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In latitude, each pole is 90° from the equator.

The surface distance from a pole to the equator is 1/4 of the polar circumference of the Earth (40,007.86 kilometers or 24,859.73 miles). So the distance from the equator to either pole is approximately 10,001.96 kilometers or 6,214.93 miles. This was the original basis for the definition of the meter.

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