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How can I remember the difference between latitude and longitude?

Latitude lines run east and west and are parallel across the earth's surface so think of them as the rungs of a ladder (as in "ladder"-tude).

Think of lines of longitude that stretch from the North Pole to the South Pole as "long."

 

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