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Is longitude up or down

Updated: 8/11/2023
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Longitude is up and down latitude goes left and right . Hope this helped.

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To put a finer point on it:

The answer to that question depends on how you hold your map

or mount your globe.

The longitude of any place is the angle east or west between that

place and the Prime Meridian.

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