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What is the latitudes lines?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 2/24/2022

Lines of latitude are any of the circles, called parallels, that are to the north or to the south of the equator and parallel to it. They are the lines on standard maps that go from east to west; right-left.
It is an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator.

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