Geografski centar Republike Srbije

Centroid of a region of the earth's surface

Address

Divostin

About

In geography, the centroid of the two-dimensional shape of a region of Earth's surface (projected radially to sea level or onto a geoid surface) is known as its geographic centre or geographical centre or (less commonly) gravitational centre. The study of geographic centers is called centrography. Informally, determining the centroid is often described as finding the point upon which the shape (cut from a uniform plane) would balance. This method is also sometimes described as the "gravitational method". One example of a refined approach using an azimuthal equidistant projection, also potentially incorporating an iterative process, was described by Peter A. Rogerson in 2015. The abstract says "the new method minimizes the sum of squared great circle distances from all points in the region to the center". However, as that property is also true of a centroid (of area), this aspect is effectively just different terminology for determining the centroid. In 2019, New Zealand's GNS Science also used an iterative approach (and a variety of different projections) when determining a centre position for New Zealand's extended continental shelf. However, other methods have also been proposed or used to determine the centres of various countries and regions. These include: centroid of volume (incorporating elevations into calculations), instead of the more usual centroid of area as described above. centre point of a bounding box completely enclosing the area.

Geographical centre — Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Nearby

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• Spomen česma u Divostinu Monument · 1161 m
• Manastir Divostin Place of worship · 1217 m
• Vom Hasof Doberman Kennel Pet services · 1290 m
• 34204 Divostin Post office · 1298 m
• Praistorijsko naselje Archaeological site · 1347 m
• FK Divostin Pitch · 1565 m
• Politek Manufacturer · 1624 m
• Carski Dvori Events venue · 1759 m
• Vila Sky Kragujevac Spa and massage · 1935 m
• Etno dvorište u Drači Museum · 2210 m
• Crkva Svetog Đorđa Šumarice Place of worship · 2242 m

Data sources: OpenStreetMap, Wikidata