Nearly halfway to the North Pole
45°00′N
Earth's equatorial bulge puts the halfway point just north of 45°N. Follow this parallel through Europe and North America.
45° is halfway from 0° to 90° on the latitude scale. Measured along Earth's surface from the equator to the North Pole, the midpoint is about 16 km farther north, near 45°08′40″N.
- monuments and signs in France, Italy, Croatia, and across the northern US
- also the 1783 Quebec border with New York and Vermont
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Other interesting latitudes
- Int’l Latitude Service, 1899 · 39°08′N
- Band of large cities · 33°36′N
- Everest's parallel · 27°59′N
- Challenger Deep · 11°22′N
- Chimborazo · 1°28′S
- Nearly halfway south, in the Roaring Forties · 45°00′S
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