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Latitude and longitude are both angles. Latitude is the angle north or south

between a place and the equator. Longitude is the angle east or west between

the same place and the Prime Meridian. With only those two numbers, you can

nail down any point on the Earth.

In a sense ... (don't get hung up on trying to make an analogy fit perfectly) ...

latitude and longitude are the familiar 'vertical' and 'horizontal' locations of a

place, but on the surface of a sphere.

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