What is longitude?

Question

What is longitude?

Answer 1

the east-west geographic coordinate measurement most commonly used in cartography and global navigation. A line of longitude is a meridian and half of a great circle.

in other words....the lines that run north south on a map or globe.....a coordinate system

look at this link...longitude is the vertical lines

Answer 2

Longititude is the distance,measured in degrees,east or west of the Greenwich meridian.(The meridian of a place is the line in which the vertical plane through the place ,the north pole and the south pole meets the earth's surface.)

Answer 3

left and right or east and west

Answer 4

the West-East imaginary lines that help show which directions planes have to travel... O° is at the equator... 90° is at both poles....

Answer 5

think you pretty much got the answer . take care .