How to read Latitude and Longitude Coordinates

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    Latitude and longitude is a coordinate system that is used for locating any place on the globe. Key terms covered include the Equator, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic & Antarctic Circles, the Prime Meridian (Greenwich), the antipodal meridian, the northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere, the western hemisphere and the eastern hemisphere.,
    Globe images of the Earth are adapted from NASA World Wind.
    A better quality version of this video (in terms of audio quality and accuracy) can be seen here:
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Комментарии • 506

  • @robotech1990
    @robotech1990 4 года назад +16

    I'M A 50 YEAR OLD MAN AND I HAD TO LEARN THIS TO INSTALL MY SOLAR PANEL ARRANGE.. tHANKS for uploading.

  • @tomfurnari4923
    @tomfurnari4923 6 лет назад +14

    I have a social studies test tomorrow and this was really helpful.
    Thank you!

  • @ACE-dz3kc
    @ACE-dz3kc 4 года назад +89

    Its weird how some comments are days old, but we all know most of us are here cuz of school :(

    • @zhane4009
      @zhane4009 4 года назад +1

      lmao

    • @relsos7081
      @relsos7081 4 года назад

      Fr

    • @selina7046
      @selina7046 4 года назад

      Same bro

    • @brett_webber233
      @brett_webber233 4 года назад

      Same fr

    • @meerkat8090
      @meerkat8090 3 года назад +6

      I’m not in school but I’m here because I was bored and wanted to buy a GPS but have no clue how to interpret coordinates 😂😂

  • @Geographicvideos
    @Geographicvideos  11 лет назад +9

    The Paris meridian is a meridian line running through the Paris Observatory in Paris, France (now longitude 2°20′14.03″ east.) Until 1911 it was a rival system to the Greenwich one. I do not know what the gaps were between meridians. Somewhere on the Internet there must be an answer to this.

  • @NickC9545
    @NickC9545 4 года назад +10

    It's fun to learn about all the destinations you can't travel to in 2020.

  • @louisxvii2137
    @louisxvii2137 7 лет назад +29

    Sydney Opera House:
    33°51’26” S, 151°12’52” E
    Uluru:
    25°17’58” S, 131°00’58” E
    Mount Cook:
    43°35’41” S, 170°08’30” E

  • @RaveAndMorty
    @RaveAndMorty 11 лет назад +95

    My left ear is thankful.

  • @SauceTart
    @SauceTart Год назад +2

    Thank you for this video! We're about to locate volcanoes in our country using a map and a set of coordinates only. This is very helpful.

  • @Vert1go_
    @Vert1go_ 4 года назад +36

    is it just me here from online school work?

    • @NickScottProducer
      @NickScottProducer 2 года назад +1

      Aviation school work here 😂

    • @lo1_idk
      @lo1_idk 2 года назад

      Nope teacher send me this vid that she said i had to watch lol😂

    • @Kagekarabs_yt
      @Kagekarabs_yt Год назад

      Nope prep for geography end of year

    • @diceymemes7987
      @diceymemes7987 Год назад

      I also have to do it

  • @xconduitt2973
    @xconduitt2973 3 года назад +9

    It’s actually fucking crazy that this guy is my current Geo teacher lol...

  • @hemantsonar
    @hemantsonar 8 лет назад +71

    audio is not stereo. i am able to hear only in one side of earphones.

    • @meaganisew9760
      @meaganisew9760 7 лет назад

      in 2012 im pretty sure thats the best you could do...dont hate

    • @kimimaro619
      @kimimaro619 6 лет назад +3

      Lmao yeah, I was trying to fix my speakers til I realized the problem was the video, not my equipment...

    • @Random-lm4nt
      @Random-lm4nt 5 лет назад +1

      2019 here :D

    • @r.ramajeyaraj1099
      @r.ramajeyaraj1099 4 года назад

      Ugh same

  • @TaterChip91
    @TaterChip91 4 года назад +4

    Not as complicated as I thought it would be, but still will need to watch a few more times to get it to stick. But it seems manageable now.
    Side note, about 10 +/- years ago, I was in Arizona for a rodeo and drew a bull named Uluru. Never got the chance to ask the stock contractor what exactly that meant. All I knew it was Australian and I had been curious ever since. Why that insignificant memory stuck around for this long is beyond me.

    • @joe-ig7sz
      @joe-ig7sz 4 года назад

      Haha thats funny

  • @RollOut82
    @RollOut82 5 лет назад +51

    Did anyone else go def at 1:09 ??
    If your speakers are on loud... can't say you haven't been warned!

    • @MoneyMindset2k24
      @MoneyMindset2k24 5 лет назад +2

      RollOut82 yes

    • @LFPman
      @LFPman 5 лет назад

      @RollOut82 almost jumpscare
      Edited due to typo

  • @brianbrewster6532
    @brianbrewster6532 7 лет назад

    OMG - thank you so much for posting this. Perfect video to explain perfectly how to read lat and long coords for a programming I am developing.

  • @Nickster-sb6ts
    @Nickster-sb6ts 8 лет назад +162

    My teacher forced me to watch this

  • @lucasbentley3589
    @lucasbentley3589 2 года назад +6

    Hell yeah now my left year understandings longitude and lattitude

  • @priyankaa5108
    @priyankaa5108 3 года назад +1

    Thank you very much, I wanted to understand how to find the Longitudinal and latitudinal extent of a nation, this helped very much.

  • @kristinakelm8909
    @kristinakelm8909 4 года назад +1

    Excellent! The video summaries most important concepts!

  • @aminasworld1898
    @aminasworld1898 3 года назад +1

    thank you for making an amazing video to make us study and understand what an amazing person

  • @nothanks3724
    @nothanks3724 7 лет назад +1

    Thank you so much! This makes so much more sense now.

    • @swanni1633
      @swanni1633 7 лет назад +1

      No Thanks please explain to me I have test tmr

    • @nothanks3724
      @nothanks3724 7 лет назад +1

      TheDerpy Kid So basically the Latitude is a sideways measurement starting at the equator, measuring north and south. The Longitude is a vertical measurement at the prime meridian, measuring east and west. When writing the latitude and longitude, write degrees north or south for latitude first, and then degrees east or west for longitude after. I'm so sorry for the late reply and I hope it helps... its pretty hard to explain as you'd need a paper for it. Good luck on that test Hun ❤️

  • @cheeseballs3611
    @cheeseballs3611 3 года назад +8

    I have a social studies test today, I’m watching this in the morning

  • @Geographicvideos
    @Geographicvideos  11 лет назад +3

    Just south of the Pyrenees from what I can tell. Between some towns called Berga and Manilleu.

  • @iphonecutepapers6428
    @iphonecutepapers6428 2 года назад +2

    This geo exam made me watch this !!😊

  • @Ishaan181
    @Ishaan181 5 лет назад +3

    Thank you for making this video (was very helpful)

  • @nhuquynh2730
    @nhuquynh2730 11 лет назад +3

    very helpful for my exam, thank you! Very interesting

  • @KrishnarajRaoUrbanNaxal
    @KrishnarajRaoUrbanNaxal 5 лет назад

    Thank you for this educational video. Much appreciated.

  • @spurthichadharam9144
    @spurthichadharam9144 3 года назад +3

    Thank you I think we can shall may ( or any suitable helping verb ) understand the importance of studying observing the changes in earth s latitudes and longitudes............flattening and bulging of areas and how our activities like deforestation hurting women ( or men ) can affect its rotation and deviation between magnetic and geometric poles

  • @tonycanaris1778
    @tonycanaris1778 2 года назад +10

    This is why the earth is not flat

  • @JAMAICADOCK
    @JAMAICADOCK 11 лет назад +4

    Darron can I pick your brains again. The Paris Meridian runs close by the village of Renne le Chateau in the Longuedoc. What is the closest parallel to Renne le Chateau? And did the Paris Meridian have a different set of parallels from Greenwich?

  • @alancadieux2984
    @alancadieux2984 5 лет назад

    0:35 thankyou latitude is read 1st & longitude is read 2nd. Much looking elsewhere no one seems to think that could possibly be important.

  • @Geographicvideos
    @Geographicvideos  11 лет назад +2

    It has nothing to do with speed.It is about location. (unless you are referring to how fast the Earth rotates) It is more to do with how lines of longitude, the Earth has been divided into 360 meridians (representing the 360 degrees of the earth). That is 180 degrees east plus 180 degrees west. Every 15 degrees longitude represents one hour. 15 degrees x 24 hours =360 degrees. 24 hours in a day.Each lines of Each of those meridians is further divided up into 60 minutes.

  • @purplemutantas
    @purplemutantas 11 лет назад +1

    Excellent. Exactly what I was looking for.

  • @jazzyjazz3707
    @jazzyjazz3707 3 года назад +8

    It confuses me that the horizontal lines measure north to south when they run east to west and the vertical lines measure east to west when they run north to south..why is that?

    • @juang614
      @juang614 2 года назад +3

      Just imagine you slice a sphere along the Equator line. You’d end with a top (north) and a bottom (south) half. They run horizontal, but create vertical divisions, and same idea applies for longitude lines.
      So if you keep slicing the top half, the way to identity them is to think about the vertical increments.

  • @brighttsibu160
    @brighttsibu160 7 лет назад +1

    Thanks so much. The videos have been helping me and that of some colleagues in Ghana Geographers Association. We are really grateful to the administrators.

  • @atiqulny
    @atiqulny 10 лет назад +5

    Thank you, good education.

  • @javierechevarria1548
    @javierechevarria1548 2 года назад +2

    Very well explained. Thank you

  • @patriotrealm5855
    @patriotrealm5855 3 года назад

    Thanks. Am going to use this on an article on my blog tomorrow!

  • @AlexanderThickstunsChannel
    @AlexanderThickstunsChannel 11 лет назад +1

    Just what I needed to know, thanks!

  • @carterbusby239
    @carterbusby239 9 лет назад +66

    I'm so lost

    • @yenethvictoria3142
      @yenethvictoria3142 8 лет назад +4

      same

    • @Qubaisi4Life
      @Qubaisi4Life 8 лет назад +10

      same here... this confused me alot i have no clue how i will do in my exam tomorrow but i will try my best

    • @christdamsel6899
      @christdamsel6899 7 лет назад

      Carter Busby how it is so easy

    • @christdamsel6899
      @christdamsel6899 7 лет назад

      Heyitsjust Yeneth you should not be

    • @RoflJoker1994
      @RoflJoker1994 6 лет назад +1

      ?.. this is the most simplified explanation how are you guys lost lmfao..

  • @universalconquest4447
    @universalconquest4447 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for the great video!

  • @tammymiles8240
    @tammymiles8240 8 лет назад

    This was a great insight, you have helped me a lot!

  • @cheemgaming3457
    @cheemgaming3457 3 года назад +4

    Why is the sound of this video so weird when i wear my headphones, i only hear the left side of my headphone

    • @richardthavendran932
      @richardthavendran932 3 года назад

      your headphones are broken m8

    • @nexeom6625
      @nexeom6625 3 года назад +1

      @@richardthavendran932 No i can hear the left side on my tablet so the video is kinda made that way

    • @emilia5984
      @emilia5984 3 года назад

      same

  • @skypoponosx
    @skypoponosx 9 лет назад +1

    Great video - thank you for your time, effort and knowledge :)

  • @JAMAICADOCK
    @JAMAICADOCK 11 лет назад +1

    Brilliant. Better than GPS. Thanks.

  • @tanmaykaushal9362
    @tanmaykaushal9362 4 года назад +1

    Good explanation sir😊😊
    Thank you🙏🙏

  • @ptsdon
    @ptsdon 4 года назад +1

    This is a good intro video explaining how to read mapping coordinates... easy to follow. Has a challenge exercise at the end.

  • @pikiwiki
    @pikiwiki 10 лет назад

    great dry tone to the edification. learned some

  • @austinlindsay
    @austinlindsay 11 лет назад +1

    When the coordinates say "Sixty minutes", what speed are they calculating that at?

  • @donaldducky6471
    @donaldducky6471 10 лет назад +37

    GO NZ

  • @pop5678eye
    @pop5678eye 4 года назад +7

    Incorrect vocabulary: 'Horizontal' means along surface, 'vertical' means up and down along the gravitational gradient.

  • @austinlindsay
    @austinlindsay 11 лет назад +1

    The speed of the earth's rotation explained it. Thank you for your help. :)

    • @andrewhope8698
      @andrewhope8698 5 лет назад

      No, sorry. Despite the use of minutes and seconds, this isn't about "time". It's all about how a single degree is divided further into smaller units, i.e. minutes and seconds. 1 degree = 60 minutes = 360 seconds.

  • @keng5170
    @keng5170 5 лет назад +11

    I still can’t find my car keys 🔑

  • @Squishy743
    @Squishy743 4 года назад +9

    I understood something, but don't know what I understood.

  • @laroo56
    @laroo56 11 лет назад +1

    I love YT. Thank you.

  • @49thQuadrant
    @49thQuadrant 5 лет назад +1

    My favorite coordinates are 10 deg longitude and 49 deg latitude with the geodatic datum Potsdam or Rauenberg Datum. Weird, isn't it?

  • @johannesvogl2256
    @johannesvogl2256 8 лет назад

    But there are also numbers after the 60 minutes numbers as like the coordinates of this airfield in the caucasus region: 41.55.54 N 041.51.33 E How to get those last numbers? Are those the seconds?

  • @puzzlepuddles6712
    @puzzlepuddles6712 4 года назад +9

    watching this because im lost in Minecraft Earth 1:1. I want to find canada please help

  • @SisterSuffragetteUSA
    @SisterSuffragetteUSA 11 лет назад

    This was very helpful for me! Thank you.

  • @Sunshinlebron
    @Sunshinlebron Год назад +8

    Who else has AP GEOGRAPHY TEST AND ARE STRUGGLING

    • @Discodian
      @Discodian Год назад +4

      Not ap, but I'm severely struggling rn 💀

    • @GRFGYT44
      @GRFGYT44 Год назад

      Not an AP but i have MYE coming and i am not ready

  • @tapaskumarmaiti227
    @tapaskumarmaiti227 7 лет назад

    good video at all. you can increase your primary knowledge by this video.

  • @herbp821
    @herbp821 11 лет назад

    well done, well done..... I appreciate your time and efforts. It has helped me..

  • @RockstarIsreta
    @RockstarIsreta 6 лет назад +5

    1:08 the random music scared me

  • @kolina7313
    @kolina7313 5 лет назад +3

    Oh my god jumpscare at 1:09 (btw ty for the help)

  • @cryptopet
    @cryptopet 11 лет назад +1

    Very useful, Toodle-oo

  • @zero_bf
    @zero_bf 6 лет назад +2

    I'm in grade 9 and my teacher doesn't even teach us this. This is important to learn. In geography my teacher teaches us kindergarten level things. She asks questions on test like, "which city has a longer name? Which country has a larger are? How many mountains are in this area?"

  • @tvabenbow
    @tvabenbow 4 года назад +4

    School work thanks

  • @derrickdg42
    @derrickdg42 9 лет назад +2

    I have a compass app that tells me degrees and second. Now I get it. Thanks a lot.

  • @amandaseepampoentjie2066
    @amandaseepampoentjie2066 10 лет назад

    thanks you explain it very easy to understand

  • @MrVWQ
    @MrVWQ 11 лет назад

    wonderful. thanks for your time and effort

  • @kiaragold822
    @kiaragold822 10 лет назад +6

    helpful, thanks!

  • @NexenTriz
    @NexenTriz 9 лет назад

    I need this to do my homework.

    • @NexenTriz
      @NexenTriz 9 лет назад

      And I still don't understand.

  • @deanhannah2452
    @deanhannah2452 10 лет назад

    At 1:10 and at 1:15 you said 22.5 degrees but on the screen it says 23.5 degrees ??

    • @Geographicvideos
      @Geographicvideos  10 лет назад +1

      22.5 degrees is an error in the video which I dealt with by putting the correct 23.5 degrees on the screen.

  • @rebeccabanana89
    @rebeccabanana89 10 лет назад +2

    Greenwich is pronounced 'Grennich'. Excellent video.

  • @ShivamSingh-yl7jo
    @ShivamSingh-yl7jo 4 года назад +7

    502 flat earthers disliked this video

  • @olnn1347
    @olnn1347 6 лет назад

    this is no joke my geo teacher mr Gedge LMAOOOOO

  • @ninjamarky
    @ninjamarky 12 лет назад +1

    Great!

  • @sanitamang2747
    @sanitamang2747 8 лет назад

    thank you for your information

  • @XIL3GANDIX
    @XIL3GANDIX 3 года назад +2

    first time i have gotten homework in a while lol

  • @alfredthepatientxcvi
    @alfredthepatientxcvi 6 лет назад

    Thank you! I understood!

  • @Sefree6
    @Sefree6 7 лет назад

    Great video.

  • @lanaaitcheson9725
    @lanaaitcheson9725 9 лет назад

    So what are the readings of the three places....? I want to check I have these right =)

    • @Geographicvideos
      @Geographicvideos  9 лет назад +2

      +Lana Aitcheson
      Sydney 33° 51' S Long151° 12' '' EUluru
      25° 20'' S 131° 2' E
      Mount Cook
      43°36'S, 170°09'E

    • @lanaaitcheson9725
      @lanaaitcheson9725 9 лет назад

      +Darron Gedge's Geography Channel great thank you! What happens in the case with a country exactly on the equator or meridian....? For example Kisumu, Kenya.... this is a tricky one!

    • @Geographicvideos
      @Geographicvideos  9 лет назад

      That depends on how precise you need your coordinates to be. If you are talking just degrees it would be just 0 degrees. But if you are using degrees, minutes and seconds then you are likely to have a precise location in either the northern or southern hemisphere.

    • @lanaaitcheson9725
      @lanaaitcheson9725 9 лет назад

      I was more curious than anything =) so there is no N or S needed. clears it up, thank you! you are amazing!
      Lana

  • @ItzTimizYT
    @ItzTimizYT 3 года назад +3

    I hope my teacher Mrs botsio sees this comment. That possibility it’s brobably very low but ya that would be cool

  • @MarkWysocki-i1y
    @MarkWysocki-i1y 5 месяцев назад

    Perhaps those lines are merely a way of depicting the Interior Structure of Earth, a Sphere that was constructed. At the North and South Poles there would need be a circular ring to support all said latitudinal edifices. Like the bottom of Earths Lunar Satellite, you can see this correlation.

    • @MarkWysocki-i1y
      @MarkWysocki-i1y 5 месяцев назад

      I meant to say longitudinal edifices, the rings that connect to the north and south poles.

  • @rjprivate
    @rjprivate 4 года назад +4

    Yeah good one!

  • @smallestJustice
    @smallestJustice 8 лет назад

    thanks, very informative and sweet.

  • @JAMAICADOCK
    @JAMAICADOCK 11 лет назад +1

    Can anybody out there tell me where the old Paris Meridian touches 42 N? Somewhere in the Pyrenees I think - a exact location would be much appreciated.

  • @hokiesfan4500
    @hokiesfan4500 8 лет назад

    Curiosity question: Why aren't the coordinates read in an (x,y) fashion like a mathematical graph? Meaning Longitude, Latitude vs the actual way it's read?

  • @hman9581
    @hman9581 Год назад +7

    Really do need to explain how we find the degrees and which way do we read from the starting point. Confusing explanation for a beginner.

  • @VernNorrgard
    @VernNorrgard 6 лет назад +1

    Nicely explained, very straightforward. :-)

  • @turnasquare1
    @turnasquare1 3 года назад +1

    3:07 is where you lost me... can anyone explain this a little clearer? Sorry, just a slow learner. Great video!

    • @kravlone7612
      @kravlone7612 3 года назад +2

      We're dividing degrees of latitude or longitude in 60 minutes, and the each minutes to 60 second
      Imagine a scale, let's say meter scale, then it'll have 1 meter which is divided into 100 cm which is further divided into mm, like that
      This is done so to locate a place or a person on earth surface in very precise manner, let's say there is a person between the space of 5° N and 6° N, how we'll locate him ? That's why we use minutes and seconds, not only this, there are 3 formats that are used majorly, dms(degree, minutes, sec), dm(degree, minutes), dd(decimal degree), I find decimal degree easy and more useful

    • @turnasquare1
      @turnasquare1 3 года назад +1

      @@kravlone7612 Thank you so much!

  • @lennyappleton2840
    @lennyappleton2840 8 лет назад

    between where and where is the temperate zone?

  • @MarkWysocki-i1y
    @MarkWysocki-i1y 5 месяцев назад +2

    Like many rings, or Halos, physically built, to form a sphere.

  • @usertwn
    @usertwn 2 года назад +13

    My Notes from this video
    First ever system of finding locations via longitude and latitude was done by Greek Philosopher Hipparchus
    Widely used in GPS systems and Geographical information system
    Latitude = Horizontal lines; North/South; 0-90 degrees max
    Lines of latitudes = parallels
    Longitude = Vertical Lines; West/East; 0-180 degrees max
    Lines of longitude = meridians
    Equator = 0 degrees Latitude
    North Pole = 90 degrees N Latitude
    South Pole = 90 degrees S Latitude
    Either North/South Pole & Equator form a 90 degree Angle
    North of equator is Northern Hemisphere
    South of equator is Southern Hemisphere
    North of equator at 23 degrees N is Tropic of Cancer
    (Northern Hemisphere)
    South of equator at 23 degrees S is Tropic of Capricorn
    (Southern Hemisphere)
    Between these two is a place known as the “Tropics”
    66 degrees N/66 degrees S of the Equator is the Arctic and Antarctic circle
    The area between the Tropic of Cancer and Arctic circle is called the “Temperate Zone”
    West of Prime Meridian is the Western Hemisphere
    East of Prime Meridian is the Eastern Hemisphere
    Degrees of Latitude and Longitude have been divided into minutes and seconds
    60 minute in each degree and each minute into 60 seconds

    • @therocket39
      @therocket39 2 года назад

      You are also Very Wrong...
      All you have to do is watch.
      THE GREAT PYRAMID K 2019.

  • @chocoman635
    @chocoman635 3 года назад +4

    This dude teaches at my school lol

  • @farrahabdalla2557
    @farrahabdalla2557 7 лет назад

    Anyone who actually wants to know how to read longitude and latitude it’s at 2:24

  • @Pawn2e4
    @Pawn2e4 3 года назад +16

    Why am I getting a flat Earth warning. RUclips is a joke

    • @the3rdking747
      @the3rdking747 3 года назад +1

      seriously tho, i thought the same thing

    • @therocket39
      @therocket39 2 года назад

      Nope you just need to find the right clip.
      Watch The Great pyramid K 2019...

    • @cbrooks0905
      @cbrooks0905 2 года назад

      What do you mean you’re getting a flat earth warning?

  • @khanraja7205
    @khanraja7205 9 лет назад

    sir i am teacher of geography but it is always hard to teach them about location regarding grid

  • @budman8207
    @budman8207 7 лет назад

    Thank you I understand now.

  • @gisslehammond62
    @gisslehammond62 4 года назад

    CLEAR EXPLAINING

  • @haithamsavage2514
    @haithamsavage2514 6 лет назад

    Learning about this