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3 years ago

The equator runs north-south roughly through the middle of the continent of Africa. Answer

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This is false, as the equator does not run north-south. The equators is the line that goes all around the planet in equal distance from the two poles: so it runs west-east.

It is true however that it runs roughly through the middle of the continent of Africa, but rather on the west-east axis.
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