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# GeoCoordinates

#### Thing > Intangible > StructuredValue > GeoCoordinates

The geographic coordinates of a place or event.
Usage: Between 100,000 and 250,000 domains

Property | Expected Type | Description
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Properties from GeoCoordinates
`address` | PostalAddress or Text | Physical address of the item.
`addressCountry` | Country or Text | The country. For example, USA. You can also provide the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
`elevation` | Number or Text | The elevation of a location (WGS 84).
`latitude` | Number or Text | The latitude of a location. For example `37.42242` (WGS 84).
`longitude` | Number or Text | The longitude of a location. For example `-122.08585` (WGS 84).
`postalCode` | Text | The postal code. For example, 94043.
Properties from Thing
`additionalType` | URL | An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
`alternateName` | Text | An alias for the item.
`description` | Text | A description of the item.
`disambiguatingDescription` | Text | A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
`image` | ImageObject or URL | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`mainEntityOfPage` | CreativeWork or URL | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity.
`name` | Text | The name of the item.
`potentialAction` | Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
`sameAs` | URL | URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official website.
`url` | URL | URL of the item.

Instances of GeoCoordinates may appear as values for the following properties

Property | On Types | Description
--- | --- | ---
`geo` | Place | The geo coordinates of the place.
`geoMidpoint` | GeoCircle | Indicates the GeoCoordinates at the centre of a GeoShape e.g. GeoCircle.

Examples
Example 1
Without Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD

    <h1>What is the latitude and longitude of the Empire State Building?</h1>
    Answer:
    Latitude: 40 deg 44 min 54.36 sec N
    Longitude: 73 deg 59 min 8.5 sec W

    <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place">
      <h1>What is the latitude and longitude of the <span itemprop="name">Empire State Building</span>?</h1>
      Answer:
      <div itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates">
        Latitude: 40 deg 44 min 54.36 sec N
        Longitude: 73 deg 59 min 8.5 dec W
        <meta itemprop="latitude" content="40.75" />
        <meta itemprop="longitude" content="73.98" />
      </div>
    </div>

    <div vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Place">
      <h1>What is the latitude and longitude of the <span property="name">Empire State Building</span>?</h1>
      Answer:
      <div property="geo" typeof="GeoCoordinates">
        Latitude: 40 deg 44 min 54.36 sec N
        Longitude: 73 deg 59 min 8.5 dec W
        <meta property="latitude" content="40.75" />
        <meta property="longitude" content="73.98" />
      </div>
    </div>

    <script type="application/ld+json">
    {
      "@context": "http://schema.org",
      "@type": "Place",
      "geo": {
        "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
        "latitude": "40.75",
        "longitude": "73.98"
      },
      "name": "Empire State Building"
    }
    </script>

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