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State any two properties of the lines of longitude.

Longitudes are the vertical line that runs from pole to pole on the globe.

Two properties of longitude-


● Each longitude is identified by the number of degrees it lies east or west of the so-called prime meridian in Greenwich, England (part of London).


● They are semicircles whose distance decreases towards the pole.


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