How many kilometres are there in between every degree north off the equator?Is it constant?

Answer 1

111.325 kilometers (69.172 miles)

It does vary slightly but not much.

Answer 2

There are 2000 yards (a naugtical mile) between each minute of logitude - it is a constant. A kilometer is (very roughly) 5/8 of a terestrial mile - 1760 yards so one minute of logitude is just over 1.81 kilometeres - one degree of longitude would be about 109 km - The result can be verified by knowing that the diameter of the earth is approximately 12700km - multipy by pi and divide by 360 gives a result of 110.82 km

Answer 3

if you travel 360 degrees around the equator, you would travel approx 38000 kms and if you spin 360 degrees at the north pole, you would travel virtually nothing.

so, near the equator, say a foot north, you would need to travel approx 1583 kms per degree of longitude. BUT a foot south of the north pole, each degree of longitude would take only about an inch or so.
if you look at a globe with longitude lines on it, you can see how they expand as they get nearer the equator.

Answer 4

It varies, because of the radius of curvature of the Earth. The earth being an oblate spheroid, the length of an angular measure such as a degree changes smoothly (at sea level) as you go from the equator to the Pole. Of course, the situation is even worse when you consider degrees of longitude, where the distance of one degree of arc along any parallel of latitude can be anywhere from 0 to over 695 miles (again, at sea level).

Answer 5

No. The distance between each degree depends on the latitude. Is is the more near the equator, Wher it si (40000/360) =111 km. AT one pole it is zero!!

Answer 6

200/3 km
Assume the earth is perfectly round, 24 hr in one round, every hr is about 1000km, so ~ 24,000km is the circumference
=12000km/180

Answer 7

1 degree of latitude is equivalent to 60 nautical miles, which is equivalent to 111.12 km.

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Everyone else seems to be answering as if the question is about longitude. "Between every degree north" seems to suggest latitude to me.

Answer 8

I don't exactly understand your question and you might want to rephrase it...

Since the world is round, the widest flatest area on the planet is about 40kms.