Greatest relief
27°42′N
From Kangchenjunga's summit to a Pacific trench: a drop of about 17,800 m (11.1 miles) along one latitude.
Relief is the gap between the highest and lowest elevations. Here it runs from Kangchenjunga's summit to the Izu–Bonin Trench, both on this latitude.
- Kangchenjunga 8,586 m (GeoNames) at 88°09′E to −9,259 m at 143°19′E
- the trench is a map cell from ETOPO 2022 at 60″
- every parallel ranked by the rule Highest uses, against its lowest cell
- 28°41′N, through Dhaulagiri, comes within 17 m
Measured parallels
- Biggest seasonal swing · 62°57′N
- Flattest land · 59°32′N
- Most climate zones · ≈33°29′N
- Most people · 24°54′N
- Humanity's population belt · 24°30′N
- Densest land population · 13°00′N
- Most countries crossed · 10°58′N
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