Geography · Latitudes and Longitudes
Find out the statement which is NOT true regarding the lines of latitude.
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- 1The number of parallels of latitudes in each of the northern and the southern hemispheres, excluding the equator and the poles, is 90.✓
- 2The total number of parallels of latitudes, at intervals of 1° and including the equator, is 179.
- 3Lines joining places with the same latitudes are called parallels.
- 4The latitude of a place is its angular distance north or south of the equator, measured along the meridian of that place from the centre of the earth.
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The number of parallels of latitudes in each of the northern and the southern hemispheres, excluding the equator and the poles, is 90.
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