what is radius of earth
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Its equatorial radius is 6378 km, but its polar radius is 6357 km - in other words, the Earth is slightly flattened. Eratosthenes was measuring the polar radius, and his value (using the 0.15 km/stadium conversion) lies between the polar and equatorial values.
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6,371 km.
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Earth's equatorial radius is 6378 kilometre but its polar radius is 6357 kilometre - in other words the earth is slightly flattened. Erathosthenes was measuring the polar radius and his value lies between the polar and equatorial values.
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