Hi.
The topic that talks about earth's bar magnet says that the magnetic north pole is somewhere in northern Canada and the magnetic south pole is in Antarctica. But if the magnetic north is situated in geographical south and magnetic south in geographical north, how is the above possible?
Thanks.

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Please find the solution to the asked query:

The magnetic north is situated near the geographic south pole and magnetic south is situated near the geographic north pole. The geographical north and south differ from the magnetic ones.
The Earth behaves like a huge magnet with its north pole in “South direction” and South Pole in “North direction”. So magnetic field lines actually originate from geographical South to geographical North and hence the north pole of any magnet points toward geographic north (or south pole of the Earth’s magnetic field).
 
You can understand this concept by the given figure


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