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Because you're only looking at 1/4 of the globe, or at a map of only part of the Earth.

Go far enough north from where you're looking, and you're sure to find latitude lines

that are labeled ' N '.

Go far enough either east or west from where you're looking, and you're sure to find

longitude lines that are labeled ' W '.

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