Longitutde and latitude are measured in?

Answer 1

Longitude and Latitude are measured in degrees of angle.

These degrees are subdivided into 'minutes(')' and 'minutes' are further subdivided into 'seconds(")'.

When using the full coordinate system you can locate an object to within yards/metres on the Earth's surface.

One degree = 1 nautical mile (slightly longer than a land mile).

Each degree is divided into 60 minutes or 1 nautical mile.

Each minuite is divided into 60 seconds or 1/60 th of a nautical mile.

As an example, if we take Times Square, New York, USA. it coordinate

location is

40o 45' 27" N 73o 59' 9" W

In words, ' Forty degrees, fort five minutes twenty seven seconds North, Seventy three degrees fifty ninw minutes nine seconds West'.

The degrees of angle is set arbitrarily, by mankind. Zero degrees(0o) of Latitude being the Equator, there by 90o N / S is the North / South Pole

Zero (0o) degrees of Longitude(Meridian) being the Greenwich meridian in London England. It opposite meridan is 180o , which is a meridian from the North Pole to the South Pole through the Pacific Ocean, and the International Date Line is co-linear for most of its length.

Answer 2

Longitude and latitude are measured in degrees. Longitude measures the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface, while latitude measures the north-south position. Both longitude and latitude are used to pinpoint specific locations on the Earth's surface using a coordinate system.

Answer 3

Longitude and latitude are angles, so it is fitting

that they be described in units of angle.

Answer 4

degrees