A flight from new Jersey to Africa would take about 13 hours to complete. There is approximately 6,196 miles between the two locations.
Most of South America is south of the equator.
South of the equator
The southern border of Sudan is about 370 km from the equator, Kartoum the capital is about 1,700 km from the equator and the northern border of Sudan about 2,400 km from the equator.
The point on the southeastern seacoast of Pakistan where the coast meets India
and the Indian Ocean is the closest point to the Equator. The distance to the equator
from there is about 1,630 miles.
The answer is is the the Amazon River.
The Piscataqua is the river between New Hampshire and Maine that interstate 95 crosses. It is the very first fixed crossing between Portsmouth and Kittery.
Tahiti is part of the islands known as French Polynesia. Tahiti is 11.090 miles below the equator. It is the same distance as Hawaii is from the equator.
The 25th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 25 degrees north of the equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, North America, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean.
Egypt is in Africa.
Egypt is in Africa. Positioned far north of the continent
25 degrees north 80 degrees west is in Miami Florida in the united states
The Equator is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole that divides the Earth into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere.
an imaginary line dividing the earth in half horizontally
^ The Equator is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole that divides the Earth into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere.
The band around the middle of the Earth, separating the northern from the southern hemispheres.
Earths equator is an imaginary line equally distant from both Pole's. It goes horizontally around Earth's middle.
^ It is also the point where both 0 degrees latitude and longitude orginate.This areas also reseives the most sunglican anually and is home to a region referred to as the Tropics.
There are 35 countries in Africa that are at least partly north of the equator. The boldface entries in the list are geographically considered North Africa.
(*extend south of the equator)
Algeria
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo *
Cote D'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo *
Djbouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon *
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya *
Liberia
Libya
Mali
Mauritania
Morocco
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia *
Sudan
The Gambia
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda *
Western Sahara
The equator is an imaginary line that runs around the middle section of the earth. It is hotter there than at the north and south poles because the tilt of the earth on its axis causes the equatorial region to receive more direct sun rays than the poles.
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The Kalahari is spead across 3 countries: South Africa, Namibia and Botswana
The equator runs through three South American countries. The single country that gets its name from the equator is Ecuador.
Yes and no.
Uganda . . . yes.
Peru . . . no.
The answer is Ecuador, Columbia, and Brazil.
The diameter of the Earth through the Poles is only slightly less than the diameter across the Equator
Polar diameter = 12713.6 km
Equatorial diameter = 12,756.2 km
Which is a difference of just 42.6 km - or less than 0.34%
Because they get midsummer twice a year and midwinter twice a year. The sun is never very far from being overhead at noon even in winter.
There are only two in South America: Bolivia and Paraguay.
But there are seven more in southern Africa: Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Lesotho. Or eight counting Uganda, which straddles the equator.