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oh little kitty can you look at spain on that globe [Music] well i know it is very difficult to locate a place on the map but what if i tell you that there is a trick to it yes so in today's episode let me answer this tricky question what are latitude and longitude zoom in envision our world as a three-dimensional ball and latitudes are imaginary lines carved on it that run from west to east parallel to the longest latitude we call the equator this is the line that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres latitudes measure the distance in degrees starting with the equator at zero degree that go up in number from 1 to 90 degrees all the way to the north pole on the other hand the latitude going down the equator is marked in negative numbers until they reach the south pole which is numbered as minus 90 degrees along with the equator the other important latitudes are the tropic of cancer the tropic of capricorn the arctic circle and the antarctic circle which helps to defi