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All the way once around the globe is defined as 360 degrees. You're free

to draw as few or as many lines on your map as you want in that range.

There is no standard set of "lines" that everybody is required to use.

They're just marks that some manufacturers print on their maps and globes,

and others don't.

Personally, I use software that can display 648,000 lines around the globe

if I want to see them. That's one roughly every 200 feet north or south, all

around the Earth. Usually, I don't need that many. And if the spot I'm looking

at falls between two of those lines, I estimate the latitude between those

two numbers.

The latitudes of places on the Earth cover a range of 180 degrees ... from

-90 at the south pole to +90 at the north pole. Again, different maps and

globes have different numbers of lines that mark some even latitude divisions.

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