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It was zero degrees before people got together and gave it a name. Maybe where

they got the name for it was when they realized that every point on the line is the

same distance from both the north and the south poles, so it's the line that equates

all of those distances.

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The equator is marked as zero degrees latitude because it is the reference point for measuring latitude. Latitude measures how far north or south a location is from the equator, so the equator itself is the starting point at zero degrees.

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