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longitude

This is a data field of type double

Category:Geographic location
Description: Longitude; Angular distance between the plane of a meridian east or west from the plane of the meridian of Greenwich, expressed in decimal degrees.

Completeness and rank statistics:

Area Count Empty Distinct Minimum 25th % Median 75th % Maximum
Whole database 907 0 618 -130.45 -79.9 -71.4 -61.433 -35.217
Bar chart of values for longitude
A box-and-whisker plot shows, for each selected area, the minimum and maximum values as "whiskers", lines extending outward from the "box" formed by the 25th and 75th percentile values. The median is shown by a vertical line in the box. The data from the selected areas are shown both separately and combined, along with the database as a whole. Whiskers are not shown for the box depicting the whole database.

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