BETA LATITUDE & LONGITUDE PRACTICE

Coordinate Hunt

Read the coordinates, then click the labeled city or geographic feature at that location. There is no click limit.

SEVEN COMMON NOTATIONS · EIGHT DISPLAY STYLES

Same place. Different coordinate language.

Choose a comfortable starting level, then build toward the compact coordinate formats used in aviation and navigation. Every round places the correct city or geographic feature among labeled decoys spread across the map.

Easy: degrees, minutes, and seconds in the familiar cardinal format, no time limit, and a labeled latitude/longitude grid.
Medium: all eight display styles, 25 seconds, a light reference grid, corner coordinates, and the 0°, 0° marker.
Hard: all eight display styles, 15 seconds, and no coordinate guides.
Click blank map areas to zoom and recenter as often as needed. The challenge is solved only when you click the correct labeled feature.
Reset zoom returns to the world without restarting the clock.

Latitude and longitude use degrees, not hours. UTM and MGRS are separate grid coordinate systems, so they are not mixed into this activity.

Choose difficulty EasyDMS only · no timer · labeled grid MediumAll formats · 25 seconds · reference guides HardAll formats · 15 seconds · no guides

10 randomized locations Built from 80 cities and geographic features worldwide.

Easy bestNo completed game yet

EASYCOORDINATE FORMAT

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Location1 / 10 Correct0 TimeNo limit

Use the coordinates to find and click the matching labeled featureWorld view · no click limit

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Easy mode labels the latitude/longitude grid. Circles are cities; diamonds are geographic features.

GAME COMPLETE

Your coordinate score

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What the formats mean

A degree contains 60 minutes and a minute contains 60 seconds. Easy mode uses the familiar degrees/minutes/seconds (DMS) form. Decimal degrees put the fraction directly after the degree; DDM puts it after the minutes; DMS separates all three. In signed coordinates, positive latitude is north, negative latitude is south, positive longitude is east, and negative longitude is west.

References: USGS coordinate-format guidance, FAA flight-planning coordinate notation, and ISO 6709. Map geometry is from the public-domain Natural Earth 1:110m land dataset.