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37th parallel north

The 37th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 37 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 37° north passes through:

Country, territory or sea Notes
Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Island of Sicily
Mediterranean Sea Ionian Sea
Peloponnese
Aegean Sea Including the Greek islands of Sifnos, Antiparos, Paros, Naxos, Levitha, Telendos and Kalymnos
Aegean Sea
Caspian Sea
Kashmir Area administered by
Yellow Sea
Sea of Japan
Island of Honshū
Pacific Ocean
California
Utah / Arizona border
Colorado / New Mexico border
Colorado / Oklahoma border
Kansas / Oklahoma border
Missouri
Illinois (the area south of the parallel is only about 5 square miles)
Kentucky
Virginia
Atlantic Ocean
Santa Maria Island in the Azores
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean Gulf of Cádiz
Mediterranean Sea

United States

In the United States, the parallel defines the southernmost borders of Utah, Colorado and Kansas, and the northernmost borders of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma.

Landmarks on the parallel include Santa Cruz, California, Gilroy, California, Madera, California, Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley, Colorado City, Arizona/Hildale, Utah, Four Corners at the intersection with 32nd meridian west from Washington (the only place in the United States where four states touch), Cairo, Illinois, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Newport News, Virginia.

The parallel 37° north formed the southern boundary of the historic and extralegal Territory of Jefferson.

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