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{{Short description|Circle of latitude that is 37 degrees north of the Earth’s equatorial plane}}{{Location map-line|lat=37}}{{kml}}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 is visible for 14 hours, 42 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 37 minutes during the winter solstice.WEB, 2019-09-24, Duration of Daylight/Darkness Table for One Year,aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php, dead,aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php," title="web.archive.org/web/20191012094319aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php,">web.archive.org/web/20191012094319aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php, 2019-10-12, 2021-03-10, U.S. Naval Observatory, The 37th parallel north is roughly the northern limit of the visibility of Canopus, the second-brightest star of the night sky. Along with the 37th parallel south, it is the latitude at which solar irradiance is closest to the planetary average,See Nadeau, Alice and McGhee, Richard; ‘A simple formula for a planet’s mean annual insolation by latitude’; Icarus, volume 291, 15 July 2017, pp. 46-50 with higher solar irradiance equatorward and lower poleward.

Around the world

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastward, the parallel 37° north passes through: ! scope=“col” width=“125” | Co-ordinates! scope=“col” | Country, territory or sea! scope=“col” | Notes

Mediterranean Sea
37	N	15	type:country|name=Algeria}}! scope=“row” | {{DZA}}|

Mediterranean Sea
37	N	15	type:country|name=Algeria}}! scope=“row” | {{DZA}}|

Mediterranean Sea
37	N	52	type:country|name=Tunisia}}! scope=“row” | {{TUN}}|

Mediterranean Sea	Gulf of Tunis

37	N	53	type:country|name=Tunisia}}! scope=“row” | {{TUN}}| Cap Bon

Mediterranean Sea	Strait of Sicily, passing just north of the island of Pantelleria, {{ITA}}

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37	N	20	type:country|name=Italy}}! scope=“row” | {{ITA}} | Island of Sicily— Province of Ragusa— Province of Siracusa

Ionian Sea
37	N	39	type:country|name=Greece}}! scope=“row” | {{GRC}} | Peloponnese (Messenia)

Ionian Sea	Messenian Gulf

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37	N	09	type:country|name=Greece}}! scope=“row” | {{GRC}} | Peloponnese— Messenia— Laconia

Aegean Sea	Myrtoan Sea

37	N	40	type:country|name=Greece}}! scope=“row” | {{GRC}} | Island of Sifnos

Aegean Sea
37	N	1	type:country|name=Greece}}! scope=“row” | {{GRC}} | Islands of Antiparos and Paros

Aegean Sea
37	N	23	type:country|name=Greece}}! scope=“row” | {{GRC}}	Naxos Island>Naxos

Aegean Sea
37	N	26	type:country|name=Greece}}! scope=“row” | {{GRC}} | Island of Levitha

Aegean Sea
37	N	55	type:country|name=Greece}}! scope=“row” | {{GRC}} | Island of Kalymnos

Aegean Sea
37	N	15	type:country|name=Turkey}}! scope=“row” | {{TUR}}|

Aegean Sea
37	N	13	type:country|name=Turkey}}! scope=“row” | {{TUR}}| Passing through Adana and Nizip

37	N	25	type:country|name=Syria}}! scope=“row” | {{SYR}}|

37	N	18	type:country|name=Iraq}}! scope=“row” | {{IRQ}}|

37	N	16	type:country|name=Turkey}}! scope=“row” | {{TUR}}	Åžemdinli district (for about {{cvt>7|km}})

37	N	20	type:country|name=Iraq}}! scope=“row” | {{IRQ}}|

37	N	54	type:country|name=Iran}}! scope=“row” | {{IRN}}|

Caspian Sea
37	N	0	type:country|name=Iran}}! scope=“row” | {{IRN}}|

37	N	3	type:country|name=Turkmenistan}}! scope=“row” | {{TKM}}|

37	N	47	type:country|name=Afghanistan}}! scope=“row” | {{AFG}}|

37	N	56	type:country|name=Tajikistan}}! scope=“row” | {{TJK}}|

37	N	10	type:country|name=Afghanistan}}! scope=“row” | {{AFG}}|

37	N	28	type:country|name=Tajikistan}}! scope=“row” | {{TJK}}|

37	N	28	type:country|name=Afghanistan}}! scope=“row” | {{AFG}}|

37	N	34	type:country|name=Pakistan}}! scope=“row” | {{PAK}}| Gilgit-Baltistan - claimed by {{IND}}

37	N	50	type:country|name=China}}! scope=“row” | {{PRC}}	Xinjiang - for about {{cvt>14|km}}

37	N	0	type:country|name=Pakistan}}! scope=“row” | {{PAK}}	Gilgit-Baltistan - for about {{cvt>14|km}}, claimed by {{IND}}

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37	N	9	type:country|name=China}}! scope=“row” | {{PRC}}| Xinjiang Qinghai Gansu Ningxia Gansu Shaanxi Shanxi Hebei Shandong

Yellow Sea	Asan Bay

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37	N	20	type:country|name=South Korea}}! scope=“row” | {{KOR}}| South Chungcheong Province Gyeonggi Province - passing through Pyeongtaek, Anseong North Chungcheong Province - passing just north of ChungjuNorth Gyeongsang Province

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Sea of Japan
37	N	46	type:country|name=Japan}}! scope=“row” | {{JPN}}| Island of HonshÅ«:— Ishikawa Prefecture

Sea of Japan	Toyama Bay

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37	N	42	type:country|name=Japan}}! scope=“row” | {{JPN}}	Niigata Prefecture— Nagano Prefecture— Niigata Prefecture— Gunma Prefecture − for around {{cvt>10	7|km}}— Fukushima Prefecture— Tochigi Prefecture— Ibaraki Prefecture— Fukushima Prefecture

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Pacific Ocean
37	N	11	type:country|name=United States}}! scope=“row” | {{USA}}	California - landfall at Bonny Doon Beach just north of Santa Cruz, California>Santa Cruz Nevada Utah / Arizona border Colorado / New Mexico border Colorado / Oklahoma border Kansas / Oklahoma border Missouri Illinois (at its Cairo, Illinois	) Kentucky - passing through Bowling Green, Kentucky>Bowling Green and just south of Paducah Virginia - passing through Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (specifically, the bridge between the two tunnels)

Atlantic Ocean
37	N	10	type:country|name=Portugal}}! scope=“row” | {{PRT}}| Santa Maria Island in the Azores

Atlantic Ocean
37	N	57	type:country|name=Portugal}}! scope=“row” | {{PRT}}| Sagres Point

Atlantic Ocean
37	N	59	type:country|name=Portugal}}! scope=“row” | {{PRT}}	Cabo de Santa Maria (Faro)>Cape Santa Maria

Atlantic Ocean	Gulf of Cádiz

37	N	32	type:country|name=Spain}}! scope=“row” | {{ESP}}

Mediterranean Sea

United States, the parallel defines the southern borders of Utah, Colorado, and Kansas, and the northern borders of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. It dates to the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 when Congress divided Unorganized Territory into Kansas and Nebraska north of the 37th parallel and a remainder Indian Territory to the south. Before that, the line had been thought to be the boundary between the Cherokee and Osage reservations – the {{convert|2.46|mi|km}} discrepancy resulting in the creation of the Cherokee Strip. Congress extended the line west to New Mexico Territory, thus defining which states and territories would constitute The South between the Colorado and Mississippi Rivers, and creating what later became the Oklahoma Panhandle.BOOK, Hubbard, Bill, American Boundaries: The Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey,books.google.com/books?id=LMacwod5KLwC&pg=PA158, 27 September 2012, 2009, University of Chicago Press, 978-0-226-35591-7, 158, Landmarks on the 37th parallel include Santa Cruz, California; Gilroy, California; Madera, California; Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley; Colorado City, Arizona; the Four Corners at the intersection with the 32nd meridian west from Washington (the only place where four U.S. states meet at a point); Cairo, Illinois; Bowling Green, Kentucky; and Newport News, and Hampton, Virginia. It enters the Chesapeake Bay at the northernmost tunnel entrance / exit of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and the southernmost point of Old Point Comfort on the former Army base, Ft. Monroe.The parallel 37° north formed the southern boundary of the historic and extralegal Territory of Jefferson. See also 36th parallel north Parallel 36°30′ north 38th parallel north References {{Reflist}}{{Clear}}{{geographical coordinates|state=collapsed}} - content above as imported from Wikipedia - "37th parallel north" does not exist on GetWiki (yet) - time: 9:22am EDT - Wed, May 22 2024 [ this remote article is provided by Wikipedia ] LATEST EDITS [ see all ] GETWIKI 21 MAY 2024 The Illusion of Choice Culture GETWIKI 09 JUL 2019 Eastern Philosophy History of Philosophy GETWIKI 09 MAY 2016 GetMeta:About GetWiki GETWIKI 18 OCT 2015 M.R.M. Parrott Biographies GETWIKI 20 AUG 2014 GetMeta:News GetWiki ABOUT CONTACT MRMPARROTT.COM RIMRIC.COM CONNECT [GetWiki] © 2024 M.R.M. PARROTT | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED