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The northern half of Argentina is closer to the equator than the southernmost point in Spain.
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People in most of Argentina are closer to the equator than people in southern Spain. Spain is between 37 and 43 degrees north of the equator. Only 20% of Argentina is more than 37 degrees south of the equator.
If you could find a way to put North Carolina into northern Argentina, it would be closer to the equator there than it would be if it were in southern Spain.
All of Florida, as with other southern states, is closer to Argentina than to Spain. Most of the northern and northwestern US is closer to Spain.Every point in Florida is closer to northern Argentina than it is to southern Spain.Note: Every point in Florida is closer to northern Spain than it is to southern Spain.
Most of Argentina is farther from the equator than all of southern Spain is,but there's a part in the north that's closer. I'm not in either country.There are some parts of Argentina that are farther from the equator than any placein Spain is, but there are certainly places in northern Argentina that are closer to theequator than many parts of southern Spain are.
Central America is far closer to the equator than any part of Spain. Europe and the Mediterranean Sea are at much more northerly latitudes, 30° to 60° north of the equator. Southern Spain is 36° N, while Central America is at most 22° north.
Florida is closer to the equator than southern Argentina or any part of Spain is, although it's closer to southern Spain than it is to Argentina. But northern Argentina is closer to the equator than either Florida or any part of Spain. Southern Spain is also closer to Florida than it is to Argentina, but no part of any of them is as close to the Equator as Ecuador or Gabon is.
Northern Argentina is closer (about 1500 miles or 2400 kilometers south of the equator). Argentina (and most of South America) is south of the equator, so northern Argentina is closer to the equator than southern Argentina. (Argentina extends from about 22°S to about 55°S latitude.)
Ohio is closer to the equator than Ohio is to Spain. HOWEVER Ohio and northern Spain are about the same distance from the equator.
Assuming that YOU were in either of those locations:Northern Argentina is closer to the equator. The latitude of the equator is zero. Latitudes increase as you move farther from the equator, both north and south.The northernmost point in Argentina is near 21.8° south latitude while the southernmost point in Spain is about 36° N near Gibraltar.There are Spanish islands closer to the equator, the Canary Islands, at 27.6° N, but even so northern Argentina is closer to the equator by about 6° of latitude.