Question

What are latitudes and longitudes ?

Answer 1

longitudes:the imaginary lines drawn from north to south on a globe which helps to find location and also timings is called longitudes ...there are 180 longitudes on globe.the 0 degreelongitude is called as prime meridian or green wich meridian
latitudes:the imaginary lines drawn from east to west are called latitudes these are horizontal and perpendicular to longitudes..there are 180 latitudes on globe

Answer 2

Latitude is an angle (defined below) which ranges from 0° at the Equator to 90° (North or South) at the poles. Lines of constant latitude, or parallels, run east–west as circles parallel to the equator. Latitude is used together with longitude to specify the precise location of features on the surface of the Earth.


Longitude (shown as a vertical line) is the angular distance, in degrees, minutes, and seconds, of a point east or west of the Prime (Greenwich) Meridian.