The exact geographical center of the earth, was found to be near Ankara, the present capital of Turkey, at latitude 39° and longitude 34°, on the same latitude as Mount Ararat and essentially the same longitude as Jerusalem. Which is a small city called "Çorum" in our era.
Çorum is a lovely city. There still can be found Ottoman's traditional grand bazaar with various of spices. And the city also includes the biggest monuments left by the Ancient Hittites. However, the industry is pretty undeveloped in the city. In there, economy is based on copper processing, hand weaving, agriculture and animal husbandry. Not forgetting the food, of course! Turkish foods are awesome!
If you need more information about the city, just send me a message or ask it as a opinion. Sadly, i'm not able to write very wide introducing today. But in case you want to have more idea about the city, i'm leaving the introduce video in here!
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Any idiot can tell that the surface of a sphere doesn't have a centre.
This is the sort of misinformation that is propogated by countries or towns with very little to be proud of, making shit up to make themselves special.
Be serious. Think it through. If your city is nice, you don't need to lie to promote it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_centre_of_Earth
@Regular1 Oh god... did you even bother to read what you linked to? Probably not.
The wiki page points out correctly that the reference link is not a credible source. Click on it. It's the 6th reference link.
It will take you to a bible friendly website by a creationist. Yes, the ICR, Institute for Creation Research. In their whole article about the "geographical centre of the earth" you can find references to the Flood, to Noah, and Jerusalem. And others.
It reads like the ravings of a flat-earther who just discovered numerology.
Reading is not a super power - you can do it too. Next time, read what you link.
Just showing what you oh OP was talking about. You sound like a douchebag.
@Regular1 An intellectually honest douchebag with basic reasoning skills, who can read.
I don't even know someone from that city. It's in the other side of the country where i was born, and really the only thing i like about my country is the food culture. This comment is just idiotic.
And it says "it "was" jerusalem, today's Turkey." If you have a little knowledge about history, you can simply understand that without judging.
They're talking about (as per the link from @regular1) the "superficial barycenter of the mass distribution produced by treating each continent or island as a region of a thin shell of uniform density".
Let's break that down:
• "each continent or island"
—> Land counts. Water doesn't.
"region of a thin shell of uniform density"
—> Strictly binary: Any square mile of land is "worth" the same as any other square mile. In other words, the Himalayas aren't "weighted" any more heavily just because there's a bunch of giant tall shit there.
"barycenter of the mass distribution"
—> Fancy way of saying "center of gravity" (... again, if we pay attention only to the land — ignoring elevations, water, and anything ••inside•• Earth)
··——••• THIS POINT WILL BE ••INSIDE•• EARTH •••——··
... which I think is yr point (opinion owner)
"superficial"
—> They're taking the point ON THE SURFACE that sits directly ABOVE that "center of gravity".
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Look, I agree that this is
pretty much "intellectual masturbation" in the worst way — that whole set of assumptions is weird af, and clearly there's no possible practical significance whatsoever.
But, at least they're using a DEFINITION that is free of bullshit and/or ambiguity, however arbitrary/pointless/useless it might be.
Pretty cool fact!
Thanks!
Oh wow! I had no idea. That's cool.