This may shock you, so you'd be wise to take it sitting down:
East-west angles are described as angles of longitude. The Earth is a sphere.
A trip around the entire Earth is a circle. In an east or west direction, such a
trip covers 360 degrees of longitude. In a north or south direction, it covers
360 degrees of latitude.
There's no such thing as the latitude/longitude of a whole country. That point is in central Egypt, about 150 miles southwest of the center of Cairo.
There's no such thing as the latitude/longitude of a whole country (or even a whole county). That point is in central Egypt, about 150 miles southwest of the center of Cairo.
That point is in northern Botswana. Note that it's not possible for the whole country to be located right there at those coordinates, and that any other point in Botswana has different latitude and/or longitude.
There are several ways to come at this answer, most of them way too technical and arcane to bother with. The easiest answer to state and understand may be simply the fact that each parallel of latitude goes all the way around the Earth, but each meridian of longitude only goes half-way around the Earth, so you need more of them to cover the whole Earth. Does that do anything for you ? And by the way . . . there are only 180 degrees of latitude.
That point is in India. There are also trillions of other points in India, each with different latitude and longitude. There's no such thing as the latitude and longitude of a whole country.
180 degrees because a whole circle is 360!!!
The degrees are 180 degrees north and all degrees west, it goes across the whole world.
There's no such thing as the latitude/longitude of a whole country (Or even a whole county.) That point is in central Egypt, about 150 miles southwest of the center of Cairo.
There's no such thing as the latitude/longitude of a whole country. That point is in central Egypt, about 150 miles southwest of the center of Cairo.
There's no such thing as the latitude/longitude of a whole country. That point is in central Egypt, about 150 miles southwest of the center of Cairo.
That point is in central Mexico. There are also trillions of other points in Mexico, each with different latitude and longitude. There's no such thing as the latitude and longitude of a whole country.
There's no such thing as the latitude/longitude of a whole country (or even a whole county). That point is in central Egypt, about 150 miles southwest of the center of Cairo.
That point is in northern Botswana. Note that it's not possible for the whole country to be located right there at those coordinates, and that any other point in Botswana has different latitude and/or longitude.
There are several ways to come at this answer, most of them way too technical and arcane to bother with. The easiest answer to state and understand may be simply the fact that each parallel of latitude goes all the way around the Earth, but each meridian of longitude only goes half-way around the Earth, so you need more of them to cover the whole Earth. Does that do anything for you ? And by the way . . . there are only 180 degrees of latitude.
That point is in India. There are also trillions of other points in India, each with different latitude and longitude. There's no such thing as the latitude and longitude of a whole country.
There's no such thing as the latitude/longitude of a whole country. That point is in central Egypt, about 150 miles southwest of the center of Cairo.
That point is in northeastern Morocco. There are also trillions of other points in Morocco, each with different latitude and longitude. There's no such thing as the latitude and longitude of a whole country.