GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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North, South, East & West
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Tweets that cannot be erased
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The Directions between the cardinal directions
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Lines of Latitude
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Detailed explanation-1: –North (N), East (E), West (W), South (S) are called cardinal points.-The other four intermediate directions are North-East (NE), South-East (SE), South-West (SW) and North-West (NW). These are called intermediate cardinal points.
Detailed explanation-2: -North-east, South-east, North-west and South-west are four intermediate directions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Intermediate Directions North, south, east, and west are the only true directions. The directions on the compass that are halfway between these cardinal points are called northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest. These in-between points are called intermediate directions.
Detailed explanation-4: -The intercardinal (intermediate, or, historically, ordinal) directions are the four intermediate compass directions located halfway between each pair of cardinal directions. Northeast (NE), 45°, halfway between north and east, is the opposite of southwest.