The farthest-south island we can find that's part of Japan is Iriomote-jima, at about 24.265° north latitude.
Hawaii is completely south of that latitude, but on the US mainland, it misses the south end of the Florida
Keys by about 18 miles, and Brownsville, TX by about 111 miles.
The southernmost of Japan's four major islands ... Kyushu ... extends down to about 31° north latitude.
In the US, that parallel traverses Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, and is just barely
inside the panhandle of Florida in a few places, by only about 100 feet.
80 degrees
Northern: 42 parallel north There is no southern parallel.
The dotted lines along longitude and latitude are called meridians. This is there so that the map is easier to read.
Latitude lines run from east to west, parallel to the equator. Longitudinal lines are perpendicular to latitude lines and run north to south.
All lines of latitude are parallel to each other. The equator is the line of latitude at 0 degrees. Lines of latitude in the northern hemisphere have a positive latitude or are designated with "N" for North. Likewise, lines latitude in the southern hemisphere have a negative latitude or are designated with "S" for South.For example, the continental US (not including Hawaii and Alaska) is contained within the lines of latitude at 25 N and 50 N.
The equator divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres. It it a line of latitude with the value of 0 degrees.
Lines of latitude measure the distance north and south of the equator, which is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The equator is located at 0 degrees latitude.
There are a total of 181 lines of latitude. This includes 90 lines in the Northern Hemisphere, 90 lines in the Southern Hemisphere, and the equator, which is considered the zero-degree line of latitude. Each line of latitude is measured in degrees, ranging from 0° at the equator to 90° at the poles.
Latitude lines are imaginary lines that are parallel to the equator to fix a position on earth (along with longitude lines which are imaginary lines perpendicular to the equator)
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Lines of Latitude (parallels) run from the Equator (0 latitude) to both the north and to the south, ascending. The northern most latitude is 90° North, and the southern most latitude is 90° South.
The lines that intercept latitude lines are lines of longitude.