36th parallel north
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The parallel 36° north is an imaginary circle of latitude that is 36 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
Starting at the prime meridian heading eastwards, the parallel 36° north passes through:
- The Mediterranean Sea;
- Algeria;
- Tunisia;
- Malta (passing between Comino and Malta Island);
- The Aegean Sea;
- Greece (Rhodes);
- Turkey;
- Syria;
- Iraq;
- Iran;
- Turkmenistan;
- Afghanistan;
- Pakistan;
- Kashmir (area administered by Pakistan);
- The People's Republic of China (including Tibet);
- The Yellow Sea;
- South Korea;
- The Sea of Japan;
- Japan (Chiburi Island and Honshū);
- The Pacific Ocean;
- The United States;
- The Atlantic Ocean;
- The Strait of Gibraltar;
- Spain (passing by the extreme south of Isla de Tarifa, the most southerly point of the European mainland).
[edit] United States
From west to east, the parallel passes through the states of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Cities and landmarks close to the parallel include Kettleman City, California, Henderson, Nevada, Hoover Dam, South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Nashville, Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Durham, North Carolina.
The sixth standard parallel south of Mount Diablo at 35°48' north, 13.8344 miles south of the 36th parallel, forms a continuous boundary between the California counties of Monterey, Kings, Tulare, and Inyo on the north and the counties of San Luis Obispo, Kern, and San Bernardino on the south.[1] It is sometimes taken as the boundary between Northern California and Southern California,[2] although definitions using the Tehachapi Mountains are also common.
The parallel 36° north forms the southernmost boundary of the Missouri Bootheel with the State of Arkansas. (The actual boundary is about a third of a mile north of the parallel, and about 30 miles long.)
[edit] References
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=4M43AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA626 Deering's annotated codes and statutes of California.
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=WCMLAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA230 Historical Society of Southern California
