how many miles in one latitude degree?
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1 deg. of latitude = 111 kilometers or 69 miles\n\n1 minute of latitude = 1860 meters or 6072 feet. \n\n1 second of latitude = 31 meters or 105 feet
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History and convenience.\n\nBefore calculators, decimal fractions were troublesome.  360 could be divided by many values using simple fractions.  A nautical mile is one minute (1/60th of a degree) of latitude.  The 24-hour day can be divided into time zones by 15 degree bands.
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Latitude:   41°50'10.03"N\n\nLongitude:   88° 0'25.32"W
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Latitude doesn't affect time at all. For Longitude, since 360 degrees encompasses the entire earth's surface, and since the earth rotates once in 24 hours, the time between two points one degree apart in longitude is 24/360 or 4/60 or 1/15 of an hour, which is 4 minutes. (you can break this down as far as you want, using smaller and smaller longitudinal differences). As an offshoot of this, there are 15 degrees in an arc of the earth representing  one time zone. By the way, there is no "local time" at either the North or South Pole, but that's a story for another time.
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Latitude 19° 24′-19° 03′ N \nLongitude 98° 57′-99° 22′ W
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1 mile = 1.61 kilometers\n\nSo just divide 1.61 into 200 to find your answer.
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What you are confusing here is angular and linear distance. Your step 500 miles above the Earth would be the same size as on the ground. This is linear distance. Angular distance is more complicated. 3 degrees as measured at the centre of the Earth would subtend a smaller linear distance at ground level and a much larger one at 500 miles. Imagine two kebab sticks exactly meeting in the middle of an orange at an angle of 3 degrees, the further you get from the orange the kebab sticks are further apart. This is angular distance, not linear. Jules, Lecturer. Australia.
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Given the latitudes and longitudes of two places on earth, the distance between them:\nD = R * arccos{cos(long1-long2) * cos(lat1) * cos(lat2) + sin(lat1) * sin(lat2)}. \nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mws/lld.html \n\nbut if tou don't want to make the calculation, in next pages they determine the distance between two points on the earth given their latitudes and longitudes:\nhttp://www.export911.com/convert/distaCaIc.htm\nhttp://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cvm/latlongdist.html
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The nautical mile is 1.852 km and the regular mile is 1.6093 km, a difference of about 15%. \n\nThe nautical mile is the length of one minute of arc of a great circle. A great circle is the intersection of the surface of a sphere with a (geometric) plane passing through the center of said sphere. The Equator is one great circle, so essentially a nautical mile is the the length of one minute of arc on the Equator. Presumably they felt the need to define it this way because of the impossibility of measuring 5,280 feet on the trackless sea surface. It's just happy coincidence that this distance is approximately the same as a "regular" mile (hey, 15% isn't too far off when you're talking about the ocean).
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Imagine you owned a field which was 1 mile \nwide and 2 miles long.  If you'd like to\nknow how far you'd have to walk from one\ncorner diagonally to the opposite corner,\nthen it would be handy to know "square root\nof 5", since that's the number of miles \nthe diagonal is.
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Uh...one and one-fourth degrees below zero.  (Is this a trick question?)
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If you mean the latitude, then it's 41.873712° N (+41.873712°).\n\nIf you mean the magnetic declination, then it's currently\n14°15'W changing by 0°3'E/year.
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Using much better math...\n1 mile = 1,609.344 meter
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The country of India lies from 37 Deg North lat to 8 Deg North lat approximately 29 degrees.  And from 97 Deg East Long, to 68 Deg. East Long, or approximately 29 degrees.  The reason that the distance of north-south vs. east-west when the degrees are close to the same is that while degrees of latitude are equivalent (that is why they are called parallels) degrees of Longitude are not equivalent.  Each degree of Latitude is parallel to the equator and the poles, in a sense imagine a series of planes bisecting the earth at each line, the planes are separated by equidistant degrees.  Whereas Longitude cannot be equivalent.  Look at a globe, the lines of longitude start equidistant at the equator but as they move towards the poles in a strait line they grow closer together.  So every degree of longitude may be 1 Km distant at the equator for every degree north or south they you move along the line you slowly get closer to every other line of longitude until they all meet at the poles.
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1 mile = 1.609 344 kilometer\n1 kilometer = 0.621 371 192 mile
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It would also work at the South Pole if you are 1 mile north of a parallel of latitude that is exactly one mile in circumfrence around the South pole.
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The short explanation is that the quickest way to get to the equator, of course, is to go due south.\n\nThere are a total of 90 degrees of latitude above the equator; you're 33'57" above the equator.\n\nA full "360 degrees" latitude constitutes the circumference.  From the radius value, calculate circumference:\n\nc = 2πr = 2π*3960\n\nNow, the fraction of the arc you have is between 33'57" and 0'0", and this is out of 360'.  \n\nConverting 33'57" to decimal (57/60 = 0.95), we get 33.95 degrees.\n\nCompared to the entire circumference, the ratio of this arc to the total circumference is 33.95/360 = 0.0943\n\nSo let's multiply that by the entire circumference:\n(0.0943*2π*3960) = \n\n2,346 miles\n\n\nI think it's right, hope it helps!