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Word	Definition	Example
latitude	Imaginary lines that measure the distance north or south of the equator	Lines of latitude look like the lines of a ladder.
longitude	Imaginary lines that measure the distance east or west of the imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole	Lines of longitude run vertically around the Earth.
OpenStreetMap contributorsDTankersley (WMF) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons coordinates	Either of the two lines of latitude and longitude whose intersection determines the geographical point of a place	Coordinates tell us the location of a place.

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