Do spheres have poles? Couldn’t any point on a sphere be a pole and the point directly opposite to it be the other pole? If they don’t have intrinsic poles, are Earth’s poles human-defined?

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Do spheres have poles? Couldn’t any point on a sphere be a pole and the point directly opposite to it be the other pole? If they don’t have intrinsic poles, are Earth’s poles human-defined?

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> Do spheres have poles?

No

> Couldn’t any point on a sphere be a pole and the point directly opposite to it be the other pole?

Yes

> If they don’t have intrinsic poles, are Earth’s poles human-defined?

Yes. And human defined 2 different pairs of poles: geographic and magnetic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_magnetic_pole

and they have different locations