Zero degrees latitude. Need a link? You got it.
They usually do. But latitudes, which measure distances from the equator and which, on earth, are called the parallels of latitude, do not lie in a plane.
There are no parallel lines that run FROM the equator. Lines that are parallel TO the equator are the latitudes.
The equator is the parallel of zero latitude.
The equator is the "parallel" of zero latitude.
The 20th Parallel runs through Mauritania. Western Sahara is north of there.
The equator is a parallel because it is a line of latitude that circles the Earth horizontally, dividing it into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Every line of latitude is parallel to the equator.
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The equator is a parallel that passes through more than 30 countries.
Lines of Latitude encircle the Earth, running parallel to the Equator.
Australia and Antarctica lie entirely south of the equator.
Continents that lie completely south of the equator are Australia and Antarctica. Asia and Africa lie partially underneath the equator.