Chimborazo
1°28′S
Everest is taller, but Chimborazo sits about 2 km (1.3 miles) farther from Earth's center, due to the equatorial bulge.
Earth is not a perfect sphere: spinning flattens the poles and swells the equator, so its radius is about 21 km greater at the equator. Chimborazo sits almost on the equator; Everest is 28° north, where the surface has already begun to fall away. Measured from the center, the Ecuadorian volcano wins by roughly 2 km. The app's profile shows height above sea level, where Everest still leads.
- summit 1°28′09″S, 78°49′03″W
- 6,267 m above sea level
- about 6,384.4 km from Earth's center, roughly 2 km farther than Everest's 6,382.3 km
- the equatorial bulge: Earth's radius is about 21 km greater at the equator than at the poles
- ETOPO 2022 at 60″ averages over cells, so the profile renders the summit below the listed figure
Other interesting latitudes
- Nearly halfway to the North Pole · 45°00′N
- Int’l Latitude Service, 1899 · 39°08′N
- Band of large cities · 33°36′N
- Everest's parallel · 27°59′N
- Challenger Deep · 11°22′N
- Nearly halfway south, in the Roaring Forties · 45°00′S
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