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• The Equator is the imaginary circle around Earth that is everywhere equidistant from the geographic poles and lies in a plane perpendicular to Earth's axis. 
• The Equator divides Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres. In the system of latitude and longitude, the Equator is the line with 0° latitude.
• Prime Meridian is the imaginary line used to indicate 0° longitude that passes Greenwich and terminates at the North and South pole.
• The prime meridian is the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around Earth.
• Latitude measures the distance north or south of the equator. Latitude lines start at the equator (0 degrees latitude) and run east and west, parallel to the equator.
• Lines of latitude are measured in degrees north or south of the equator to 90 degrees at the North or South poles.
• Longitude measures distance east or west of the prime meridian. Lines of longitude, also called meridians, are imaginary lines that divide the Earth.
• The Prime Meridian divides the globe into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
• The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern hemispheres.
• There are two ways to describe locations in geography: relative locations and absolute locations
• A more accurate way is expressing by its Absolute Location in the world in terms of latitudes and longitudes
• Defining the relative location of the Philippines is quite easy. You can just state the seas and countries and its margins.
• Sea that are not legally to sail is Dead Sea
• Archipelagic country - group of islands or land masses surrounded by water bodies
• Philippines is an archipelago with over 7100 islands
• The Philippines is located on the western Pacific Ocean, east of Vietnam, south of Taiwan, north of Indonesia, west of Japan, northeast of Borneo (Indonesia), southeast of China, and southwest of Okinawa Islands (Japan).
• The Philippine archipelago lies between 116°40' E and 128°00' E longitude and 4°40' N and 21°30' N latitude.
• Asia is considered the largest continent, covering almost 30% of the Earth's surface
• The pacific Ocean is the biggest and deepest of the five oceans.
• The whole Philippine Archipelgo is divided into three majors of islands : Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao
• An Archipelago is a group of islands that are separated by a body of water.
• A Globe is used to illustrate the absolute locations of the earth