Jaffna Geographic coordinates

Jaffna is located at latitude 9.66845 and longitude 80.00742. It is part of Asia and the northern hemisphere.

The geographic coordinate system enables any place in the world to be located using its latitude and longitude. The latitude is the position relative to the equator, specifying the north-south position. The longitude specifies the east-west position measured from a reference meridian (usually the Greenwich Prime Meridian). The latitude and longitude of Jaffna have been calculated based on the geodetic datum WGS84.

Map of Jaffna with coordinates

Latitude and longitude of Sri Lanka

There are many systems and formats to represent geographic coordinates. The following table matches the equivalence between the most common formats:

System	Latitude	Longitude
Simple decimal standard	9.66845	80.00742
Decimal Degrees (DD)	9.6685° N	80.0074° E
Degrees and Decimal Minutes (DDM)	9°40.107' N	80°0.445' E
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds (DMS)	9°40'6.4'' N	80°0'26.7'' E