What are longitudes and latitudes?

Answer: Commonly, latitude and longitude are referred to as geographic coordinates.

• They provide a scientific grid of lines for charting the positions of the planet’s many surface characteristics
• We shall easily establish the location, distance, and direction of several points using these coordinates
• The unit of measure for latitude is the degree
• Longitude: A north-to-south vertical line connecting the two poles. They are known as length meridian lines. They are most distant near the equator and converge towards the poles