Latitude and Longitude
Practice the grid that finds any place on Earth. Students in grades 5–12 drop a pin on a pair of coordinates, or read the coordinates of a place marked on the map. Every right answer shows the place, and every miss says how far off the pin was, like “6° too far north.”
86places to find
3levels, from 10° lines to 2½°
2skills: find the point and read the coordinates
14hemisphere warm-up questions
Quick questions
- What is latitude?
- Latitude tells how far north or south of the Equator a place is. It goes from 0° at the Equator to 90° at the North Pole and the South Pole. Lines of latitude run east and west.
- What is longitude?
- Longitude tells how far east or west of the Prime Meridian a place is. It goes from 0° at the Prime Meridian to 180°. Lines of longitude run north and south and meet at the poles.
- Which comes first, latitude or longitude?
- Latitude comes first, then longitude. Cairo, Egypt is at about 30°N, 31°E.
- How close does my pin have to be?
- On Foundations, right where the two 10° lines cross. On Standard, within 4° of both the latitude and the longitude. On Advanced, within 2½°.
- Why does the map look stretched near the top?
- This map uses an equirectangular projection, so every degree is the same size and you can count grid squares. That makes places far from the Equator, like Greenland, look wider than they are. Antarctica is left off the bottom.
Every place on this map
Foundations: world capitals (24 places)
- London, United Kingdom 51.5°N, 0.1°W
- Paris, France 48.9°N, 2.4°E
- Cairo, Egypt 30°N, 31.2°E
- Moscow, Russia 55.8°N, 37.6°E
- Tokyo, Japan 35.7°N, 139.7°E
- Beijing, China 39.9°N, 116.4°E
- New Delhi, India 28.6°N, 77.2°E
- Washington, D.C. 38.9°N, 77°W
- Mexico City, Mexico 19.4°N, 99.1°W
- Ottawa, Canada 45.4°N, 75.7°W
- Brasília, Brazil 15.8°S, 47.9°W
- Buenos Aires, Argentina 34.6°S, 58.4°W
- Canberra, Australia 35.3°S, 149.1°E
- Pretoria, South Africa 25.7°S, 28.2°E
- Nairobi, Kenya 1.3°S, 36.8°E
- Madrid, Spain 40.4°N, 3.7°W
- Rome, Italy 41.9°N, 12.5°E
- Lima, Peru 12°S, 77°W
- Santiago, Chile 33.5°S, 70.7°W
- Jakarta, Indonesia 6.2°S, 106.8°E
- Wellington, New Zealand 41.3°S, 174.8°E
- Bogotá, Colombia 4.7°N, 74.1°W
- Bangkok, Thailand 13.8°N, 100.5°E
- Berlin, Germany 52.5°N, 13.4°E
Standard: major cities (32 places)
- New York City 40.7°N, 74°W
- Los Angeles 34.1°N, 118.2°W
- Chicago 41.9°N, 87.6°W
- Miami 25.8°N, 80.2°W
- Seattle 47.6°N, 122.3°W
- Honolulu, Hawaii 21.3°N, 157.9°W
- Anchorage, Alaska 61.2°N, 149.9°W
- Toronto, Canada 43.7°N, 79.4°W
- Vancouver, Canada 49.3°N, 123.1°W
- Havana, Cuba 23.1°N, 82.4°W
- Panama City, Panama 9°N, 79.5°W
- Quito, Ecuador 0.2°S, 78.5°W
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 22.9°S, 43.2°W
- Reykjavík, Iceland 64.1°N, 21.9°W
- Stockholm, Sweden 59.3°N, 18.1°E
- Athens, Greece 38°N, 23.7°E
- Istanbul, Türkiye 41°N, 29°E
- Casablanca, Morocco 33.6°N, 7.6°W
- Lagos, Nigeria 6.5°N, 3.4°E
- Kinshasa, DR Congo 4.3°S, 15.3°E
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 9°N, 38.7°E
- Cape Town, South Africa 33.9°S, 18.4°E
- Dubai, UAE 25.2°N, 55.3°E
- Tehran, Iran 35.7°N, 51.4°E
- Karachi, Pakistan 24.9°N, 67°E
- Mumbai, India 19.1°N, 72.9°E
- Singapore 1.3°N, 103.8°E
- Hong Kong, China 22.3°N, 114.2°E
- Shanghai, China 31.2°N, 121.5°E
- Seoul, South Korea 37.6°N, 127°E
- Sydney, Australia 33.9°S, 151.2°E
- Auckland, New Zealand 36.8°S, 174.7°E
Advanced: islands, peaks and far-off places (30 places)
- Cape Horn, Chile 56°S, 67.3°W
- Nuuk, Greenland 64.2°N, 51.7°W
- Mount Everest 28°N, 86.9°E
- Galápagos Islands 0.8°S, 91.1°W
- Lake Titicaca 15.8°S, 69.4°W
- Perth, Australia 31.9°S, 115.9°E
- Murmansk, Russia 69°N, 33.1°E
- Vladivostok, Russia 43.1°N, 131.9°E
- Tristan da Cunha 37.1°S, 12.3°W
- Suva, Fiji 18.1°S, 178.4°E
- Tahiti 17.7°S, 149.4°W
- The Azores 37.7°N, 25.7°W
- Svalbard, Norway 78.2°N, 15.6°E
- Falkland Islands 51.7°S, 59.5°W
- Cape of Good Hope 34.4°S, 18.5°E
- Kamchatka Peninsula 53°N, 158.6°E
- The Maldives 3.2°N, 73.2°E
- Easter Island 27.1°S, 109.3°W
- Strait of Gibraltar 36°N, 5.6°W
- Cabo Verde 16°N, 24°W
- Seychelles 4.6°S, 55.5°E
- Diego Garcia 7.3°S, 72.4°E
- Wake Island 19.3°N, 166.6°E
- South Georgia 54.3°S, 36.8°W
- Socotra 12.5°N, 54°E
- Kerguelen Islands 49.3°S, 69.6°E
- Mount Kilimanjaro 3.1°S, 37.4°E
- Lake Baikal 53.5°N, 108.2°E
- Timbuktu, Mali 16.8°N, 3°W
- Darwin, Australia 12.5°S, 130.8°E
Teachers: run a Class Conquest on the projector, where two teams take turns plotting points and steal the ones the other team misses, or see what a Teacher code unlocks.
Standards
This map is aligned with:
- C3 Framework D2.Geo.2.6-8: Use maps and other representations to explain how the locations of places and regions relate to each other.
- National Geography Standard 1: Use maps and other geographic representations to understand and communicate information.
- National Geography Standard 2: Use mental maps to organize information about people, places and environments.
- National Geography Standard 4: The physical and human characteristics of places.
Alignment is our own. The groups that write these standards have not reviewed or endorsed Atlas Conquest.
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