What city is at 34 longitude and 152 latitude?

Answer 1

Rather than respond and simply say that there is no answer to this question, we'll

fix the question until it has an answer, and then answer the question we've created.

-- No place on Earth can have a latitude of 152 degrees. The farthest north you

can go is 90 degrees, which puts you at the north pole, and the farthest south

you can go is also 90 degrees, putting you at the south pole.

So we must assume that the questioner got his numbers swapped, and actually

meant to say "34 latitude and 152 longitude".

-- 'Latitude' always needs the tag 'north' or 'south' with it. Without that tag,

the number might mean either north or south, and those are two different places.

-- 'Longitude' always needs the tag 'east' or 'west' with it. Without that tag,

the number might mean either east or west, and those are two different places.

-- So the coordinates in the question could refer to any one of four different

places on Earth. Here they are:

-- 34° North latitude / 152° Westlongitude

There's no city there. This point is in the north Pacific Ocean, about 950 miles

northeast of Honolulu HI and 1,930 miles west of Los Angeles CA.

-- 34° North latitude / 152° Eastlongitude

There's no city there. That point is in the north Pacific Ocean, about 700 miles

east of Tokyo and 1,900 miles northeast of Taipei.

-- 34° South latitude / 152° Westlongitude

There's no city there. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean, about 1,870 miles

northeast of Wellington NZ and 2,130 miles southeast of Suva, Fiji.

-- 34° South latitude / 152° Eastlongitude

There's no city here either, but this point is closer to a city than any of the other

three is. This point is in the Tasman Sea, only a mere 50 miles offshore the center

of Sydney in Australia.