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Madrid is located at:

N40 degrees, 25.829 minutes

W003 degrees, 41.597 minutes

based on NAD27 CONUS

NAD 27 stands for North America Datum (NAD) 1927 (27). A datum is a mathematical description of the surface of the Earth. There are many such descriptions. Geographical coordinates will change from one datum to another. The coordinates given here are only valid for this datum.

For example:

N40 degrees, 25.781 minutes

W003 degrees, 41.484 minutes

is Madrid's location based on WGS84 (World Geodetic System) 1984 which is another widely used datum.

Spain itself sometimes uses the Europe 1950 datum.

The coordinates is that case would be:

N40 degrees, 25.852 minutes

W003 degrees, 41.411 minutes.

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