Is northern argentina closer to the equator than southern spain?

Answer 1

Assuming that YOU were in either of those locations:

Northern Argentina is closer to the equator. The latitude of the equator is zero. Latitudes increase as you move farther from the equator, both north and south.

The northernmost point in Argentina is near 21.8° south latitude while the southernmost point in Spain is about 36° N near Gibraltar.

There are Spanish islands closer to the equator, the Canary Islands, at 27.6° N, but even so northern Argentina is closer to the equator by about 6° of latitude.

Answer 2

Yes, northern Argentina is closer to the equator than southern Spain. Northern Argentina is located closer to the Tropic of Capricorn, which is around 23.5 degrees south of the equator, while southern Spain is farther north, closer to the Tropic of Cancer, around 23.5 degrees north of the equator.

Answer 3

Southernmost Spain is closer to the equator (36° N) than southernmost Argentina (55° S)

Argentina stretches from 20°S down to 55°S in southern South America. In Western Europe, Spain lies between 36° N (the Mediterranean) and 43° N latitude (Bay of Biscay).

Answer 4

The southern half of California is closer to Argentina than to Spain. Sacramento is about equally far from both.

Most of the central and eastern US is closer to Spain. (Denver, for example, is a toss-up.)

*see the related original question

Answer 5

Like most of the US (except the South and Southwest), Minnesota is closer to Spain than to Argentina.

(Some southern locations of the US are closer to Argentina.)

Cadiz, Spain - 4300 miles.

Northern Argentina; 5200 miles.

Answer 6

New Jersey is actually slightly closer to Spain than to Argentina.

Although Spain is across the Atlantic Ocean, Argentina is far to the south-southeast of New Jersey and New York. All of Argentina is east of 74 degrees west longitude, while all of New Jersey is west of that line.

Answer 7

If you wanted to get as close to the equator as possible, and you had to do it

in one of those three places, then you'd want to go to northern Argentina. It is only about 21 degrees south of the equator, while Southern California is 32 degrees north at its closest, and southern Spain 36 degrees north.

Answer 8

-- There are points in Argentina and California that are only 5,050 miles apart.

-- The closest points I can find in California and Spain are about 5,160 miles apart.

That's in northern Spain. Southern Spain can put you a good 500 miles farther

away from California.

Answer 9

Just now, I am closer to southern Spain. But I do travel extensively

and quite often.

Answer 10

Yes.