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Discuss the importance of longitude.

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Longitudes are imaginary lines running north to south through the poles.
The following points prove the importance of longitudes-
1. along with latitudes, longitudes are used to locate a particular place on globe of earth or map.
2. the lines of longitudes are used to calculate local and standard time of any place.


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