Geography and Latitude

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Difference between Geography and Latitude

Geography vs. Latitude

Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth. In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.

Similarities between Geography and Latitude

Geography and Latitude have 10 things in common (in Unionpedia): Celestial sphere, Equirectangular projection, Figure of the Earth, Geodesy, Geographic coordinate system, Global Positioning System, Longitude, Mercator projection, Minute and second of arc, Sexagesimal.

Celestial sphere

In astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an abstract sphere with an arbitrarily large radius concentric to Earth.

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Equirectangular projection

The equirectangular projection (also called the equidistant cylindrical projection, geographic projection, or la carte parallélogrammatique projection, and which includes the special case of the plate carrée projection or geographic projection) is a simple map projection attributed to Marinus of Tyre, who Ptolemy claims invented the projection about AD 100.

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Figure of the Earth

The figure of the Earth is the size and shape of the Earth in geodesy.

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Geodesy

Geodesy, also known as geodetics, is the earth science of accurately measuring and understanding three of Earth's fundamental properties: its geometric shape, orientation in space, and gravitational field.

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Geographic coordinate system

A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols.

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.

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Longitude

Longitude, is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface.

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Mercator projection

The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.

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Minute and second of arc

A minute of arc, arcminute (arcmin), arc minute, or minute arc is a unit of angular measurement equal to of one degree.

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Sexagesimal

Sexagesimal (base 60) is a numeral system with sixty as its base.

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The list above answers the following questions

What Geography and Latitude have in common
What are the similarities between Geography and Latitude

Geography and Latitude Comparison

Geography has 279 relations, while Latitude has 90. As they have in common 10, the Jaccard index is 2.71% = 10 / (279 + 90).

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