39th parallel north
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The parallel 39° north is an imaginary circle of latitude that is 39 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
Starting at the prime meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 39° north passes through:
- The Mediterranean Sea;
- Spain (Ibiza);
- Italy (Sardinia);
- The Tyrrhenian Sea;
- Italy (mainland);
- The Ionian Sea;
- Greece (mainland and Euboea);
- The Aegean Sea;
- Greece (Lesbos);
- Turkey;
- Iran;
- Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan exclave);
- Armenia;
- Azerbaijan (main part);
- The Caspian Sea;
- Turkmenistan;
- Uzbekistan;
- Tajikistan;
- The People's Republic of China;
- The Yellow Sea;
- North Korea;
- The Sea of Japan;
- Japan (Honshū);
- The Pacific Ocean;
- The United States;
- The Atlantic Ocean;
- Portugal (passing between the islands of Graciosa and São Jorge in the Azores, and through the mainland);
- Spain (mainland).
[edit] United States
The parallel 39° north formed the original southern boundary of the British Colony of Pennsylvania. However, a previous royal grant had given the land south of the parallel 40° north to the British Colony of Maryland. The Mason-Dixon Line was drawn between 1763 and 1767 as the compromise boundary between the overlapping claims of these two colonies.
From west to east, the parallel passes through the following states: California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey.
The 39th parallel north cuts through the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland.
