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Earth's magnetic field

Earth's magnetic field (and the surface magnetic field) is approximately a magnetic dipole, with one pole near the geographic north pole and the other near the geographic south pole.

Note:The above text is excerpted from the Wikipedia article "Earth's magnetic field", which has been released under theGNU Free Documentation License.
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