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and one minute of longitude on the equator is 1/360/60 =1/21600th of it or around 1.855km or approximately 1nm. This decreases with cos of your latitude.

One minute of latitude is always 1nm



(for those mentally converting nm to nano meter and scratching your head) I think nm here means nautical mile which makes more sense in context than nanometer.




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