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A latitude is measured in degrees from the equator to the north (or south) pole. I assume that you mean, "What is the line that forms the zero degrees latitude?" The answer is the Equator.

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The equator at 0 degrees latitude is the starting point for measuring latitude.

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Which line on maps and globes is the starting place for meauring latitude?

The Equator is the starting point for measuring latitude on maps and globes. It is located at 0 degrees latitude and divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.


When using latitude and longitude to find places on earth what do you use as your starting point?

The equator is the zero reference line for latitude, and the Prime Meridian is the one for longitude.


Is the equator a line of latitude or longitude?

The equator is the line made up of every point on Earth at zero latitude.


What is the starting point for measuring latitude?

The equator is the starting point for measuring latitude, which is 0 degrees. Latitude lines extend north to 90 degrees at the North Pole and south to 90 degrees at the South Pole.


The starting point for measuring latitude is called the what?

For Latitude, the Equator is the zero point. For Longitude, the Prime Meridian at Greenwich UK, is the starting point of zero.


What latitude line circles the globe at widest point?

The longest line of latitude is the equator (0°).


Do latitude units go east and west?

No. The latitude of a point on Earth is the angle on the surface starting at the equator and measuring north or south to the point of interest. All points on Earth that have the same latitude form a line that displays east-west on a map or globe.


The starting point for measuring latitude is?

the equator


Which line of latitude is the longest and what degree is it?

The Equator is the longest line of latitude and it is at 0 degrees latitude.


What is a horizontal line or surface starting with L?

Latitude.


At what latitude does the equator lie?

The equator is an imaginary line equidistant from the poles, and is the starting point or 0° in latitude.


What is the latitude and longitude of the point of the equator and the international date line?

The point where they cross is zero latitude / 180° longitude.