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At the equator, where the surface of the Earth is farthest from the axis. At higher latitudes, it isn’t as far to go around the Earth following a parallel of latitude, but at the equator, it is about 25,000 miles around. Since the Earth rotates once in 24 hours, that means that any point on the equator is going at over 1,000 miles per hour!
