Circle of latitude

id: circle-of-latitude-161-1491242
title: Circle of latitude
text: A circle of latitude or line of latitude on Earth is an abstract east–west small circle connecting all locations around Earth at a given latitude coordinate line. Circles of latitude are often called parallels because they are parallel to each other; that is, planes that contain any of these circles never intersect each other. A location's position along a circle of latitude is given by its longitude. Circles of latitude are unlike circles of longitude, which are all great circles with the centr
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description: Geographic notion
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_latitude
date created: 2002-11-01T17:05:15Z
date modified: 2024-08-27T07:34:35Z
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