40th parallel north

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The 40th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 40 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 40° north passes through:

Country, territory or sea Notes
 Spain
Mediterranean Sea
 Spain Island of Minorca
Mediterranean Sea
 Italy Island of Sardinia
Mediterranean Sea Tyrrhenian Sea
 Italy
Mediterranean Sea Gulf of Taranto
 Italy
Mediterranean Sea Strait of Otranto
 Albania
 Greece
Aegean Sea Including the Kassandra and Sithonia peninsulas, and the island of Lemnos ( Greece)
 Turkey
 Armenia
 Azerbaijan Including Nagorno-Karabakh
Caspian Sea
 Turkmenistan
 Uzbekistan
 Tajikistan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Tajikistan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Uzbekistan Sokh exclave surrounded by  Kyrgyzstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Uzbekistan Shakhimardan exclave surrounded by  Kyrgyzstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 China
Yellow Sea Liaodong Bay
 China Liaodong Peninsula
 North Korea
Sea of Japan
 Japan Island of Honshū
Pacific Ocean
 United States California
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Nebraska / Kansas border
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Atlantic Ocean
 Portugal
 Spain

United States

The parallel 40° north forms the boundary between the State of Kansas and State of Nebraska. On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act created the Territory of Kansas and the Territory of Nebraska divided by the parallel 40° north. Both territories were required to determine for themselves whether to permit slavery. Open conflict between free-state and pro-slavery forces in the Kansas Territory led to the American Civil War.

The parallel 40° north formed the original northern boundary of the British Colony of Maryland. A subsequent royal grant gave the Colony of Pennsylvania land north of the parallel 39° north. The Mason-Dixon Line was drawn between 1763 and 1767 as the compromise boundary between the overlapping claims of these two colonies.

The parallel 40° north passes through the cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Columbus, Ohio; as well as northern suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana and Denver, Colorado. The parallel goes directly through the Port Columbus International Airport, with runway 10L-28R lying immediately north of the line, runway 10R-28L lying slightly south of it, and the line going through the northernmost edges of the terminal.

Baseline Road in Boulder, Colorado traces the parallel 40° north.

External Links

  • [1], 40th parallel north at MSN maps


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  • This page was last modified on 3 January 2009, at 11:33.

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