Flinsberg is a suburb of Heilbad Heiligenstadt , district of Eichsfeld , Thuringia , Germany .
4-485: Flinsberg is the geographical centre of Germany. 51°19′02″N 10°11′28″E / 51.3172°N 10.1911°E / 51.3172; 10.1911 This Eichsfeld district location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Geographical centre In geography , the centroid of the two-dimensional shape of a region of the Earth's surface (projected radially to sea level or onto
8-467: A geoid surface) is known as its geographic centre or geographical centre or (less commonly) gravitational centre . 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,
12-455: 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: As noted in a United States Geological Survey document, "There is no generally accepted definition of geographic center, and no completely satisfactory method for determining it." In general, there
16-401: 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
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