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Free Printable World Map with Equator and Countries

You can use this article to know more about the world Map with equator and countries which will define the countries of different continents lying under the equator. The hemisphere is the result of the equatorial and tropical distribution of earth through the 3 imaginary lines passing parallel to the earth’s surface. The Equator is considered to pass from the center of earth covering exactly 40,075.16 kilometers. On both sides of the equator 2 other lines The line of Tropicon and the line of Cancer also lies which goes parallel to eqautor. You can also use this world map to distinct the regions which are lying under tropical climate region and which are not.

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As you can see the 7 continents illustrated with 7 different colors for you to understand easily. Along with these oceans are also illustrated, when you will observe closely a line crossing South America from top and Africa almost from the middle is an equatorial line. Thus is clearly visible it is crossing many countries with cities and oceans. The Equator crosses Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans.

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Maldives and Indonesia from Asia, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia from Africa, and Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil from South America are countries from which the equator passes. Definitely these countries have some short of impact geographically of passing equator. The most important effect is climate, as once in a year sun is directly on the top of these countries.

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Latitude at the equator is 0° and it separates the earth into 2 poles northern and southern also referred to as the hemisphere. By moving towards the north and south poles from the equator, latitudes of both sides also increase in the same manner. In this map the increasing latitude can be seen clearly.

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As at equatorial line latitude is 0 degree which leads the sun rays to fall on the countries at the equator on the right angle. This happens twice in the year ie, in March and September. These countries have equal day and night because the sun rays fall at a vertical close angle. These areas also have a tropical climate which causes heat and rain around the year.

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