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There's no reason to measure the lines, no convenient way to do it, and nobody does it.

The "longitude" of a place is the angle from the Prime Meridian east or west to that place.

If you pick one longitude, and then mark a little dot on the Earth at all the places

that have that longitude, the points all blend together to form a line between the

north and south poles. The 'line' is called the meridian of that one single longitude.

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Is north longitude or latitude?

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