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What Is a Geographic Coordinate System?
Arabian
Sea
Barents Sea
Norwegian Sea
Kara
Sea
North
Sea
Tasman
Sea
East
China
Sea
Philippine
Sea
Bay of
Bengal
Laptev Sea
East Siberian Sea
Sea of
Okhotsk
Coral Sea
Timor Sea
Bering
Sea
South
China
Sea
NORTH
PACIFIC
OCEAN
INDIAN OCEAN
NTIC
ARCTIC OCEAN
International
Date Line
GREENWICH MERIDIAN
GREENWICH MERIDIAN
Severnaya
Zemlya
(North Land)
New Siberian Islands
Svalbard
(Norway)
Franz Josef Land
(Russia)
K u r il
I s
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R y u k y u Is .
N o v a y a
Z e m ly a
BOTSWANA
TANZANIA
MADAGASCAR
MALAWI
CONGO
CAMEROON
IAL GUINEA
BENIN
BURKINA
ANA
DJIBOUTI
GABON
ÔTE
OIRE
 LESOTHO
NAMIBIA
SWAZILAND
KENYA
UGANDA
COMOROS
TUNISIA
DEM.
REP. OF
CONGO
RWANDA
BURUNDI
ZAMBIA
C.A.R.
PAKISTAN
OMAN
SRI LANKA
MYANMAR
BANGLADESH
AFGHANISTAN
VIETNAM
LAOS
THAILAND
CAMBODIA
BRUNEI
TAIWAN
NORTH
KOREA
SOUTH
KOREA
NEPAL
BHUTAN
SOLOMON
ISLANDS
FIJI
SINGAPORE
MALDIVES
MAURITIUS
BEL.
LUX.
SWITZ.
GERMANY
ROMANIA
MOLDOVA
GEORGIA
AZERBAIJAN
TURKMENISTAN
UZBEKISTAN KYRGYZSTAN
TAJIKISTAN
ARMENIA
BELARUS
LITHUANIA
LATVIA
ESTONIA
RUSSIA
DENMARK
GREECE
SERB.
B.H.
SL.
NETH.
CZECH.
SLOV.
HUN.
ALB.
CYP.
JORDAN
ISR.
LEB.
SYRIA
U.A.E.
YEMEN
QATAR
BAHRAIN
KUWAIT
VANUATU
PALAU
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
MAC.
ERITREA
TUVALU
NAURU
MARSHALL
ISLANDS
SÃO TOMÉ AND
PRÍNCIPE
SE YC HE LL ES
AUS.
TOGO
TIMOR LESTE
ZIMBABWE
BUL.
MONT.
MO ZA M B IQ
U E
CRO.
ALGERIA
ANGOLA
CHAD
EGYPT
ETHIOPIA
LIBYA
OCCO
NIGERIA
SOMALIA
SOUTH
AFRICA
IA
SUDAN
SOUTH
SUDAN
NIGER
MALI
MONGOLIA
PAPUA
NEW
GUINEA
MALAYSIA
PHILIPPINES
JAPAN
NEW
ZEALAND
FRANCE
SPAIN
NORWAY
SWEDEN FINLAND
POLAND
UKRAINE
KAZAKHSTAN
ITALY
UNITED
KINGDOM
SAUDI
ARABIA
TURKEY
IRAQ
IRAN
KIRIBATI
INDIA
CHINA
AUSTRALIA
INDONESIA
RUSSIA
180°
180°
165°E
150°
135°
120°
105°
90°
75°
60°
45°
30°
15°E
0°
75°
60°
45°
30°
15°N
0°
15°S
30°
45°
60°
165°E
150°
135°
120°
105°
90°
75°
60°
45°
30°
15°E
0°
TROPIC OF CANCER
TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
EQUATOR
APRICORN
CIRCLE
+11
+11
+11
+12
+12
+12
+10
+10
+10
+9
+8
+8
+8
+9
+9
+6
+9.5
+5.5
+3.5 +3.5
+7
+7
+6
+5
+5
+4
+4
+4
+4
+3
+3
+3
+2
+2
+1
+1
0
0
23:00
22:00
21:00
20:00
19:00
18:00
17:00
16:00
15:00
14:00
13:00
Sunday
12:00
Sunday
24:00