The latitude of the obelisk in the center of St. Peter's Square in the Vatican is 41° 54' 08.05" north.
The latitude of the center of the Arch of Constantine, near the Colosseum, is 41° 53' 21.85" north.
You wouldn't ask "What mark on the ruler is closest to your height ?"
You would ask "How tall are you ?"
There's no such thing as "the closest line". There's no standard set of "lines" that everybody must use. You can draw a line on your map at ANY latitude. The main door of the terminal building at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport is located at 43.6316° north latitude 79.3959° west longitude. There are an infinite number of other points in Toronto, and most of them are located at different latitudes.
The equator is the 'zero' of latitude, so the smaller the latitude number is, the closer it is to the equator. There's no such thing as the 'closest' or smallest. You can name any latitude you want to, and no matter how small it is, I can always name a smaller one.
No, the international date line is a line of longitude, not latitude.
The equator is another name for the 0 line of latitude.
The equator is located at 0 degrees latitude.
The city of Rome, Italy is on the same latitude line as Chicago, IL, which is 41 degrees. The straight-line distance from Rome to Chicago is 4,827 miles.Chicago, Illinois is on the same latitude as Rome, Italy.
30 degrees north
Rome.
There's no such thing as "the closest line". There's no standard set of "lines" that everybody must use. You can draw a line on your map at ANY latitude. The main door of the terminal building at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport is located at 43.6316° north latitude 79.3959° west longitude. There are an infinite number of other points in Toronto, and most of them are located at different latitudes.
About 23.5 degrees
The closest line of latitude to Mexico City is the Tropic of Cancer, at 30 degrees north. Mexico City itself is close to 19° N.
The Tropic of Cancer.
The equator is the 'zero' of latitude, so the smaller the latitude number is, the closer it is to the equator. There's no such thing as the 'closest' or smallest. You can name any latitude you want to, and no matter how small it is, I can always name a smaller one.
The center of Mexico City is located at 19.42° north latitude 99.13° west longitude. Would you ask someone "What line on the ruler is closest to your height ?" I'm guessing you'd ask him "How tall are you ?" Forget about "lines". There is no standard set of of latitude and longitude lines from which you have to choose one that's somewhere close.
closest airport to rome, georgia
The equator is an imaginary line that circles the earth at 0 degrees latitude. Many things lie along that line. The equator is the 'zero' of latitude, so the smaller the latitude number is, the closer it is to the equator. There's no such thing as the 'smallest'. You can name any latitude you want, and no matter how small it is, I can always name a smaller one.
a latitude line is a line going from east to west. Just like the equator. the equator is a latitude line measuring at ) degrees latitude.