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Why do some people mix up the lines of longitude and latitude?

April 26, 2017Geography latitude longitude Mathematics mix people

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Why do some people mix up the lines of longitude and latitude?

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Because lines of longitude run north-south, i.e. vertically, and when people visualise an object’s length, they tend to automatically visualise the object as lying horizontally, not vertically.