What is the difference between "latitude" and latitude line?"
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Latitude is how far N a point is from the equator. Latitude line is that latitude extended all the round the Earth.
Here's what I posted for you a few minutes ago.
Latitude lines go around the globe -- east-west -- and are parallel to each other. They measure distance from the Prime Meridian.
Longitude lines go up and down (the long way) -- north-south. They are not parellel to each other, but meet at the Poles. They measure distance from the Equator.
Latitude lines go around the globe -- east-west -- and are parallel to each other. They measure distance from the Prime Meridian.
Longitude lines go up and down (the long way) -- north-south. They are not parellel to each other, but meet at the Poles. They measure distance from the Equator.
Surely the other way about?
Latitude lines go around the globe -- east-west -- and are parallel to each other. They measure distance from the Equator
Longitude lines go up and down (the long way) -- north-south. They are not parallel to each other, but meet at the Poles. They measure distance from the Prime Meridian
Latitude lines go around the globe -- east-west -- and are parallel to each other. They measure distance from the Equator
Longitude lines go up and down (the long way) -- north-south. They are not parallel to each other, but meet at the Poles. They measure distance from the Prime Meridian
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