they are measured in degrees
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Longitude is an angle, and is expressed in angle units. Some meridians are often
drawn on maps to show the location of a few selected longitudes, but there's no
need to measure those lines.
"Declination" may refer to one of the two celestial location coordinates,
analogous to terrestrial latitude, or to the error in the reading of a magnetic
compass. Both of these quantities are angles, and are described in angle units.
Usually degrees. However latitude can potentially be measured in any unit that angles are measured in (e.g. radians, grads, binary degrees, minutes, seconds, turns, quadrants).
Latitude and longitude are measured in degrees, with latitude representing north-south position and longitude representing east-west position on the Earth's surface.
The longitude of any point on Earth is the angle measured east or west to it ... whichever is shorter ... from the Prime Meridian.
No, that's latitude. Longitude is measured east or west of the Prime Meridian, which runs through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England.
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.
Longitude can be measured in values ranging from -180° to +180°.