Google Maps has delighted many in Turkey by marking the Central
Anatolian province of Çorum as the geographical center of the surface of
the earth.
The search engine company stated that the
geographical center of all land surfaces on earth was 40°52′N 34°34′E,
located in a rural part of Çorum, Anadolu Agency reported on June 15.
Çorum had also theoretically been marked as the center of the earth in previous calculations.
According
to calculations made by the physicist Andrew J. Woods in 1973 in San
Diego, the geographical center of the earth was marked as 150 kilometers
southeast of the Turkish capital Ankara.
A new calculation made
via a global digital surface model by Holger Isenberg in 2003 adjusted
the center and marked Çorum province as the world’s geographical center.