How many miles are between two degrees?

Answer 1

Is it longitude or latitude?

Each degree of separation between latitude lines (this is as you travel due North or due South) is about 69 miles. This would also be true of degrees longitude only at the Equator. As you move toward one of the poles, longitude degrees get smaller, until you are at a pole, and you could walk a small circle around the pole in a few feet, and cover all 360 degrees.

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