World Map Latitude world map is a map of most or all of the surface of the Earth World maps form a distinctive category of maps due to the problem of projection Maps by necessity distort the presentation of the earth s surface These distortions reach extremes in a world map World Map Latitude shown as a horizontal line is the angular distance in degrees minutes and seconds of a point north or south of the Equator Lines of latitude are often referred to as parallels Longitude shown as a vertical line is the angular distance in degrees minutes and seconds of a point worldtimezoneCurrent time and world time zones and time map with current time around the world and countries operating Daylight Savings Time sunclock map shows what part of the world is in darkness and what part is in daylight detailed time zone maps of the USA time Europe time Australia time Canada time Middle East time Oceania time Russia time zone Interactive Time Map for time in relation to other World Map ...