SCS Maharashtra Board Grade 6 | Geography | Chapter 3 - World of Coordinates Explain the differences between the latitudes and the longitudes with the help of a figure. Ans. The differences between the latitudes and the longitudes are as follows : Latitudes Longitudes (1) Imaginary circles drawn at a distance of one degree difference from each other parallel in the east-west direction and are known as latitudes. (1) The semicircular imaginary lines drawn from the center of the Earth at an equal angular distance from each other in the north-south direction are called as longitudes. (2) All the latitudes are parallel to each other. ...