Absolute and Relative Location: Understanding Geographic Coordinates, Summaries of Geography

What is absolute location? Absolute location: the location of a place using latitude (North/South) and longitude (East West) coordinates.

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Absolute Location

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What is absolute location?

Absolute location : the location of a place using latitude (North/South) and longitude (East West) coordinates. Hint: Whenever we write absolute location, we write North/South first

Equator vs. Prime Meridian

  • Equator : the line of latitude that separates the Northern and Southern Hemisphere - Prime Meridian : the line of longitude that separates the Eastern and Western Hemisphere