What is 26 degrees east an example of?

Answer 1

This is a meridian or line of longitude, which runs from pole to pole 26° E of the Greenwich meridian, and runs thru central Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece).

Farther south, in northern Africa, 26°E runs through Egypt and Sudan east of their borders with Libya.

Answer 2

26 degrees east is an example of a longitude coordinate, indicating a location's position east of the Prime Meridian, which is the 0-degree line of longitude passing through Greenwich, England.