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Is 36,300,000 spans as long as The Diameter of Earth?

It's about two-thirds as long as The Diameter of Earth
The length of The Diameter of Earth is about 55,801,720 spans.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has a diameter of approximately 55,801,719 spans at the Equator. The first complete view of Earth's diameter was in a photograph taken from a V-2 rocket launched in 1946 by the United States Army, which reached an altitude of 457,600 spans.
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