Soweto Geographic coordinates

Soweto is located at latitude -26.26781 and longitude 27.85849. It is part of Africa and the southern 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 Soweto have been calculated based on the geodetic datum WGS84.

Map of Soweto with coordinates

Latitude and longitude of South Africa

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	-26.26781	27.85849
Decimal Degrees (DD)	26.2678° S	27.8585° E
Degrees and Decimal Minutes (DDM)	26°16.069' S	27°51.509' E
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds (DMS)	26°16'4.1'' S	27°51'30.6'' E