Center of Orlando US . . . . . . . . . 28.54° north latitude Center of Brisbane Australia. . . . 27.46° south latitude Of the two, Brisbane Australia is closer to the equator. But not by much.
Melbourne is closer to Sydney than Brisbane is.
Melbourne is closer to Adelaide than Sydney is.
Khartoum, Sudan, is closer to the equator than Cairo, Egypt.
Laos
South America is closer to the equator.
The South of Italy is closer to the equator than the North
Sri Lanka is closer to the equator than China.
Because the sun is closer to the equator than it is to Massachusetts.
Nigeria is closer to the equator.Both countries are entirely north of the equator. The northernmost point in Nigeria is 15.786 degrees North latitude; about 1,090 miles closer to the equator than the southernmost point in Israel is.
The regions closer to the equator are hotter and more moist than those further from the equator. They receive more solar energy than the poles.
The Arctic Ocean is closer to the Equator than it is to the South Pole.