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What are your longitude and latitude?
Latitude is your distance North or South from Earth’s equator, measured in degrees. Longitude is your distance East or West of the Prime Meridian, which runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, England. The Prime Meridian is at 0°. Moving East, longitude increases from 0° to +180°.
What is latitude and longitude degrees?
Latitude and longitude are measuring lines used for locating places on the surface of the Earth. They are angular measurements, expressed as degrees of a circle. A full circle contains 360°. Each degree can be divided into 60 minutes, and each minute is divided into 60 seconds.
What is the latitude and longitude of ancient Sumer?
What is the approximate latitude and longitude of Mesopotamia?
| Latitude of Mesopotamia | 34.5337527 |
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| Longitude of Mesopotamia | 43.483738 |
What is our longitude?
The distance around the Earth measures 360 degrees. The meridian that runs through Greenwich, England, is internationally accepted as the line of 0 degrees longitude, or prime meridian. The antimeridian is halfway around the world, at 180 degrees.
Is longitude up and down?
Longitude is the measurement east or west of the prime meridian. Longitude is measured by imaginary lines that run around the Earth vertically (up and down) and meet at the North and South Poles.
What comes first latitude or longitude?
Handy tip: when giving a co-ordinate, latitude (north or south) always precedes longitude (east or west). Latitude and longitude are divided in degrees (°), minutes (‘) and seconds (“). There are 60 minutes in a degree and 60 seconds in a minute (similar to measuring time).
What are the longitude and latitude coordinates of Mesopotamia?
UTM coordinates (WGS84) of Mesopotamia. The UTM coordinates (WGS84) of Mesopotamia are: Zone 38S E: 360852.5 N: 3822383.89.
Where was Mesopotamia located in the medieval times?
Mesopotamia is a term used to refer to a medieval region located on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, which now lies in the modern-day Middle East. The region corresponds to most parts of modern day Iraq as well as parts of Iran, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey. This page was last updated on June 6, 2017.
Why was Mesopotamia known as the Fertile Crescent?
Mesopotamia literally means land between two rivers because it was located between the Euphrates and Tigris River. Because of the rivers, the land was very fertile so they then nick-named it the Fertile Crescent.
What is the latitude of the South Pole?
The latitude of the Equator is 0°; the latitude of the South Pole is −90°; the latitude of the North Pole is 90°. Positive latitude values correspond to the geographic locations north of the Equator (abbrev. N). Negative latitude values correspond to the geographic locations south of the Equator (abbrev. S).