Latitude and longitude are angles. There is no smallest unit.
If you move one inch north of where you are right now, you've changed
your latitude about 0.00000023 degree, or about 0.000004 milliradian.
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The smallest unit of latitude and longitude is one minute, which is further divided into seconds. One minute of latitude is approximately equal to one nautical mile. One minute of longitude varies in distance based on the latitude but is also approximately one nautical mile at the equator.
The Second. A Second is 1/60th of a Minute, 1/3600th of a Degree. One second of longitude represents roughly 31 meters (102 feet) at the Equator.
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The smallest unit of measure for longitude is seconds. There are 60 seconds in 1 minute of longitude.
Latitude and longitude are angles, so any unit of angle measure works.The one most commonly used is degrees and subdivisions of degrees.
Is 23 a longitude or a latitude
Latitude is measured as the angle between the point and the equator, ranging from 0° at the equator to 90° at the poles. Longitude is measured as the angle between the point and the prime meridian, ranging from 0° to 180° east or west. These measurements help pinpoint a specific location on Earth's surface.