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Is 2,033 nautical miles as long as The Diameter of Earth?

It's about three-tenths as long as The Diameter of Earth
The length of The Diameter of Earth is about 6,887.83650 nautical miles.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has a diameter of approximately 6,887.83640 nautical miles 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 56.4834560 nautical miles.
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