Pinpointing your place is extremely easy on the world map if you exactly know the latitude and longitude geographical coordinates ... on the middle of earth from east to west and is known as equator ...

The latitude and longitude lines jointly works as coordinates on the earth or in the map. The distance between the equator and prime meridian along with direction indicates the location of any place ...

In a work known as the Geography, Ptolemy had explained how to map the world in degrees of latitude and longitude ... landmass stretching from above the Equator to the bottom of the map was ...

GPS coordinates are most commonly expressed as latitude and longitude. This system divides the earth into latitude lines, which indicate how far north or south of the equator a location is ...

Well I’m on the half that’s above the Equator ... the world, I just need to look at where the lines cross, and read the numbers. Ah, there he is! Latitude is 32 degrees south, and longitude ...