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-- Since every point on a line of latitude has the same latitude, the line has no thickness.

-- Its length depends on its latitude.

-- The line at zero latitude, known as the 'equator', is a great circle and so its length

is the circumference of the Earth ... about 24,900 miles.

-- Every other line of latitude is a small circle. Its length is 24,900 miles times the cosine

of the latitude which it marks.

-- The distance between any latitude and the one that's 1° north or south of it is

about 111.1 kilometers (69 miles).

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