Cloud Kicks is working on a better way to track its product shipments utilizing Salesforce. Which field type should an administrator use to capture coordinates?

The Geolocation custom field type stores a pair of latitude and longitude decimal values directly on a record, enabling precise coordinate capture and supporting distance-based calculations using the native DISTANCE() and GEOLOCATION() formula functions.

Geofence is not a Salesforce field type - it is a geographic boundary concept used in external mapping applications but does not exist as a native Salesforce custom field.

Custom Address fields store structured postal address components such as street, city, state, and postal code but do not capture precise geographic coordinates.

External Lookup fields establish a relationship to an external object via Salesforce Connect for data federation purposes and are not used to store geographic coordinate data.