World Map Equator List Complete lists of continents countries lakes oceans mountains etc World Population Clocks Keep track of the world and American population World Map Equator great circle around the Earth that is everywhere equidistant from the geographic poles and lies in a plane perpendicular to the Earth s axis This geographic or terrestrial Equator divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres and forms the imaginary reference line on the Earth s surface from which latitude is reckoned in other words it is the line with 0 equator of a rotating spheroid such as a planet is its zeroth circle of latitude parallel It is the imaginary line on the spheroid s surface equidistant from its poles dividing it into northern and southern hemispheres In other words it is the intersection of the spheroid s surface with the plane perpendicular to its axis of rotation and midway between its poles World Map Equator blueplanetbiomes climate htmDry Tropical Cli...