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AH020387 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
longitude VS latitude
Is longitude north-south, and latitude east-west?
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Longitudes run in a North-South direction but shows your location in an east-west direction , relative to the Greenwich meridian. Places to the east of Greenwich (such as Middle East, India and Japan) have longitude angles up to 180 degrees east. Places to the west of Greenwich (such as the Atlantic and North and South America) have angles up to 180 deg west.
- Longitudes run in a North-South direction but shows your location in an east-west direction , relative to the Greenwich meridian.
- Places to the east of Greenwich (such as Middle East, India and Japan) have longitude angles up to 180 degrees east.
- Places to the west of Greenwich (such as the Atlantic and North and South America) have angles up to 180 deg west.
- Likewise, Latitudes are used to express how far north or south you are, relative to the equator.
- But they run in an east-west direction.
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Longitudes run in a North-South direction but shows your location in an east-west direction, relative to the Greenwich meridian. Places to the east of Greenwich (such as Middle East, India and Japan) have longitude angles up to 180 degrees east. Places to the west of Greenwich (such as the Atlantic and North and South America) have angles up to 180 deg west.
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