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What do you know about latitudes?
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What do you know about latitudes?
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Latitudes are imaginary lines drawn around the earth.
The word ‘latitude’ comes to us from the Latin word ‘iatitudo’ meaning width.
Latitudes are also called parallels because they are parallel to each other.
Latitudes are circles.
Latitudes are expressed in degrees (°), minutes (‘) and seconds (“).
Latitude values range from 0° t* 90° North (the North Pole) and 90° South (the South Pole).
Thus there are 180° main latitudes (not counting the equator)
Equator, the 0° latitude is the largest among all the latitudes.
Latitudes are used together with the longitudes to locate a place on the earth.
Latitudes are used to locate the climatic zones on the earth.
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