Latitude & Longitude

An address for every place

An interactive lesson with 6 steps, about 5 minutes: you predict, drag and solve, with instant feedback on every answer. It runs in your browser and needs JavaScript.

What you’ll learn

• Latitude measures north–south; longitude measures east–west.
• One degree of latitude is about 111 km.
• One degree of longitude is $111\cos\varphi$ km, shrinking towards the poles.

Steps

1. Two angles
2. Shrinking circles
3. Oslo
4. Find the latitude
5. Above the Arctic Circle
6. Defining the metre