37th parallel north
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37th parallel north
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The 37th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 37 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Africa, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
At this latitude, the sun can be seen for 14 hours, 42 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 37 minutes during the winter solstice.[1] This is about the northern limit of the visibility of Canopus, the second-brightest star of the night sky.
Around the world[change]
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 37° north passes through:
Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Mediterranean Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Mediterranean Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Mediterranean Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Mediterranean Sea Gulf of Tunis Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Cap Bon Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Mediterranean Sea Strait of Sicily, passing just north of the island of Pantelleria, File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Island of Sicily
— Province of Ragusa
— Province of SiracusaLua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Ionian Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece Peloponnese (Messenia) Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Ionian Sea Messenian Gulf Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece Peloponnese
— Messenia
— LaconiaLua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Aegean Sea Myrtoan Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece Island of Sifnos Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Aegean Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece Islands of Antiparos and Paros Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Aegean Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece Island of Naxos Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Aegean Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece Island of Levitha Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Aegean Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece Island of Kalymnos Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Aegean Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Aegean Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Passing through Adana and Nizip Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Şemdinli district (For about 7 km) Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Caspian Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Turkmenistan.svg Turkmenistan Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Tajikistan.svg Tajikistan Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Tajikistan.svg Tajikistan Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Gilgit-Baltistan - claimed by File:Flag of India.svg India Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China Xinjiang - for about 14 km Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Gilgit-Baltistan - for about 14 km, claimed by File:Flag of India.svg India Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg People's Republic of China Xinjiang
Qinghai
Gansu
Ningxia
Gansu
Shaanxi
Shanxi
Hebei
ShandongLua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Yellow Sea Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea South Chungcheong Province
Gyeonggi Province
North Chungcheong Province
North Gyeongsang ProvinceLua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Sea of Japan Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Island of Honshū:
— Ishikawa PrefectureLua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Sea of Japan Toyama Bay Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Island of Honshū:
— Niigata Prefecture
— Nagano Prefecture
— Niigata Prefecture
— Gunma Prefecture − for around 10 km
— Niigata Prefecture − for around 7 km
— Fukushima Prefecture
— Tochigi Prefecture
— Ibaraki Prefecture
— Fukushima PrefectureLua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Pacific Ocean Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of the United States.svg United States California (landfall near Santa Cruz)
passing through Mount Huffinpuff
Nevada
Utah / Arizona border
Colorado / New Mexico border
Colorado / Oklahoma border
Kansas / Oklahoma border
Missouri
Illinois (at its southernmost point)
Kentucky
Virginia - passing through Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (specifically, the bridge between the two tunnels)Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Atlantic Ocean Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal Santa Maria Island in the Azores Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Atlantic Ocean Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal Sagres Point Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Atlantic Ocean Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal Cape Santa Maria Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Atlantic Ocean Gulf of Cádiz Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Mediterranean Sea
United States[change]
In the United States, the parallel is the southern borders of Utah, Colorado, and Kansas, and the northern borders of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. The border comes from the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 when Congress divided Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska north of the 37th parallel. They gave the rest to the Indian Territory to the south.
References[change]
- ↑ "Duration of Daylight/Darkness Table for One Year". Archived from the original on 2019-10-12. Retrieved 2019-09-26.