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IMPORTANT LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES

LATITUDES

Latitude Position Countries through which it passes

Tropic of 23° 26' Mexico, The Bahamas, Mauritania, Mali,
Cancer N Algeria, Niger, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
UAE, Oman, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar,
China and Taiwan
Tropic of 23° 26' Namibia, Botswana, South Africa,
Capricon S Mozambique, Madagascar, Australia, Chile,
Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, French Polynesia,
New Caledonia, Fiji and Cook Islands

Arctic 66° 33' Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, USA
Circle N (Alaska), Canada, Denmark (Greenland), and
Iceland
Antarctic 66° 33' Territories on Antarctic claimed by Australia,
Circle S France, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile and UK

Equator 0° Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome e
Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda,
Kenya, Somalia and Indonesia

Longitudes

Longitude Position Countries through which it passes

Prime Meridian 0° longitude UK, France, Spain, Algeria, Mali,
Burkina Faso, Tongo and Ghana
International 180° E/W Mid-Pacific Ocean
Date Line longitude

States in India through which Tropic of Cancer and 82.5° longitude
passes

Tropic of 23° Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh,
Cancer 26' N Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura
and Mizoram
Indian 82.5° Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,
Standard E Odisha and Andhra Pradesh
Time