According to sources I have read, the country known as Switzerland can be found in the middle latitudes.
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Temperate latitudes. These are regions on Earth located between the tropics and the polar regions, characterized by moderate temperatures and distinct seasons.
tropics! so it has several different kinds of climates.
Panama at about 9N is in the "tropics", which is the area between the Tropic of Cancer at 23 26N and the Tropic of Capricorn at 23 26S.
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Occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth. Refer to the climate zone between 35 and 50 north and south latitudes.
Since latitudes run from zero to 90 degrees, and downtown Chicago's latitude is roughly 42 degrees north, you'd have to call that "middle" latitude.
"High" latitudes. The equator has a latitude of zero. The area between the Tropic of Cancer (at 23.5 degrees north) and the Tropic of Capricorn (at 23.5 degrees south) are the "tropics" or low latitudes. The "polar regions" are above the Arctic Circle or below the Antarctic Circle, where the latitudes are higher than 66.5 degrees (north or south) are "high". The areas between the tropics and the arctic/antarctic are called "mid-latitudes or "temperate zones".
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Most temperate climates are located in the middle latitudes. The middle latitudes has four temperate climates such as humid continental, marine west coast, Mediterranean, and humid subtropical.
Weather systems are moved by the large scale wind currents of the Earth. These generall move west in the tropics, east in the middle latitudes, and west near the poles.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe mid-latitudes (sometimes midlatitudes) are the areas on earth between the tropics and the polar regions, approximately 30° to 60° north or south of the equator. The mid-latitudes are an important region in meteorology, having weather patterns which are generally distinct from weather in the tropics and the polar regions. Weather fronts and extratropical cyclones are usually found in this area, as well as occasional tropical cyclones which have traveled from their areas of formation closer to the equator.