Talk:Geographical zone

Great Britain in Europe
In the temperate zones paragraph why is Great Britain included in the list when it is already covered under Europe?

Athosfolk (talk) 16:33, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Climate zones
The phrase "[t]he idea of a geographical zone was first hypothesized by the ancient Greek scholar Aristotle" is wrong. As Strabo (63 BC to 23 CE) reports (Strab. 2,2,1-2):

"Indeed Posidonius says that (125, 15) Parmenides was the originator of the division into fi ve zones, but that he declares that the torrid [zone] is about double its real breadth, making the [zone] between the tropics extend beyond both tropics and into the temperate [zones]. Aristotle calls it (i.e., the torrid zone) [the zone] between the tropics and [he calls the zones] (125, 20) between the tropics and the arctic [circles] temperate. But he (i.e., Posidonius) justly objects to both men, for it is [the zone] that is uninhabitable on account of heat that is called torrid, whereas more than half of the breadth of [the region] between the tropics is inhabitable." [Ed. Edelstein & Kidd]

Parmenides was a pre-Socratic philosopher from Elea. I will modify the article accordingly.

Ursus Maior (talk) 14:14, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

A map marking the latitude lines?
I wonder if there has been conversations or thoughts about getting a map marking the latitude lines? Cheers, Caballero/Historiador (talk) 22:57, 28 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Perhaps, like this one:



Caballero/Historiador (talk) 23:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Percentages of Earth's surface
Areas calculated in the WGS84 ellipsoid: The North frigid zone using 66°33’47.4”N to 90°N is 21,206,734.733486 km² (8,187,966.056236 sq mi). 4.16% of Earth's surface. The North temperate zone using 23°26’12.6”N to 66°33’47.4”N is 132,771,934.867813 km² or (51,263,530.646320 sq mi). 26.03% of Earth's surface. The Torrid zone using 23°26’12.6”N to 23°26’12.6”S is 202,108,282.521489 km² (78,034,444.140853 sq mi). 39.62% of Earth's surface. The South temperate zone using 23°26’12.6”S to 66°33’47.4”S is 21,206,734.733486 km² (8,187,966.056236 sq mi). 26.03% of Earth's surface. The South frigid zone using 66°33’47.4”S to 90°S is 21,206,734.733486 km² (8,187,966.056236 sq mi). 4.16% of Earth's surface. Earth 510,065,621.724089 km² (196,937,437.545965 sq mi). Used Charles Karney's Online geodesic polygon calculations using the Planimeter utility https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/cgi-bin/Planimeter "Planimeter (version 1.49) calculates the perimeter and area of a polygon whose edges are either geodesics or rhumb lines on the WGS84 ellipsoid." "The result for the area is accurate to about 0.1 m2 per vertex."Sulasgeir (talk) 16:57, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Geography
N Frigid zone 14.102.100.53 (talk) 06:15, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

what is heat zone
whyy 122.173.217.246 (talk) 12:54, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

What is South Pole and Nouth pole??
The pole pointing towards the pole star (North) is called the North pole. The pole opposite to it is called the south ple 86.97.217.150 (talk) 16:41, 21 September 2023 (UTC)