# 50th parallel north

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The 50th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 50 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
At this latitude the sun is visible for 16 hours, 22 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 4 minutes during the winter solstice. The maximum altitude of the sun during the summer solstice is 63.44 degrees and during the winter solstice it is 16.56 degrees. During the summer solstice, nighttime does not get beyond astronomical twilight, a condition which lasts throughout the month of June. It is possible to view both astronomical dawn and dusk every day of the month of May.
At this latitude, the average sea surface temperature between 1982 and 2011 was about 8.5 °C (47.3 °F).

## Around the world

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 50° north passes through:
    Coordinates Country, territory or sea Notes 50°0′N 0°0′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 0.000°E﻿ / 50.000; 0.000﻿ (Prime Meridian) English Channel 50°0′N 1°15′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 1.250°E﻿ / 50.000; 1.250﻿ (France)  France Upper Normandy — for about 20 km Picardy — passing just north of Amiens Nord-Pas-de-Calais — for about 13 km 50°0′N 4°10′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 4.167°E﻿ / 50.000; 4.167﻿ (Belgium)  Belgium Wallonia 50°0′N 4°40′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 4.667°E﻿ / 50.000; 4.667﻿ (France)  France Champagne-Ardenne — for about 10 km 50°0′N 4°49′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 4.817°E﻿ / 50.000; 4.817﻿ (Belgium)  Belgium Wallonia 50°0′N 5°49′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 5.817°E﻿ / 50.000; 5.817﻿ (Luxembourg)  Luxembourg Diekirch District 50°0′N 6°9′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 6.150°E﻿ / 50.000; 6.150﻿ (Germany)  Germany Rhineland-Palatinate Hesse Rhineland-Palatinate — passing through Mainz city centre Hesse — passing just south of Frankfurt, crossing a runway of FRA international airport and passing just south of DCF77 time signal transmitter Bavaria — passing just north of Bayreuth 50°0′N 12°26′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 12.433°E﻿ / 50.000; 12.433﻿ (Czech Republic)  Czech Republic Passing through southern parts of Prague 50°0′N 17°49′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 17.817°E﻿ / 50.000; 17.817﻿ (Poland)  Poland For about 11 km 50°0′N 17°58′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 17.967°E﻿ / 50.000; 17.967﻿ (Czech Republic)  Czech Republic For about 10 km 50°0′N 18°7′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 18.117°E﻿ / 50.000; 18.117﻿ (Poland)  Poland Passing through southern districts of Kraków (on the 20th meridian east) Passing through southern districts of Tarnów (on the 21st meridian east) Passing through southern districts of Rzeszów (on the 22nd meridian east) 50°0′N 23°10′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 23.167°E﻿ / 50.000; 23.167﻿ (Ukraine)  Ukraine Lviv Oblast — passing just north of Lviv Ternopil Oblast — passing through Pochaiv Khmelnytskyi Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast — passing through Andrushivka Kyiv Oblast Cherkasy Oblast Poltava Oblast — passing through Lubny Kharkiv Oblast — passing through Kharkiv city centre 50°0′N 37°57′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 37.950°E﻿ / 50.000; 37.950﻿ (Russia)  Russia Belgorod Oblast — for about 18 km 50°0′N 38°12′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 38.200°E﻿ / 50.000; 38.200﻿ (Ukraine)  Ukraine Luhansk Oblast — for about 12 km 50°0′N 38°22′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 38.367°E﻿ / 50.000; 38.367﻿ (Russia)  Russia Belgorod Oblast Voronezh Oblast — passing just north of Boguchar Rostov Oblast Volgograd Oblast — passing just south of Kamyshin 50°0′N 47°15′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 47.250°E﻿ / 50.000; 47.250﻿ (Kazakhstan)  Kazakhstan West Kazakhstan Province — for about 63 km 50°0′N 48°8′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 48.133°E﻿ / 50.000; 48.133﻿ (Russia)  Russia Saratov Oblast — for about 55 km 50°0′N 48°51′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 48.850°E﻿ / 50.000; 48.850﻿ (Kazakhstan)  Kazakhstan West Kazakhstan Province — passing just south of Chapaev and Zhympity and just north of Karatobe Aktobe Province — passing just north of Alga and Karabutak Kostanay Province — passing just south of Arkalyk Karagandy Province — passing just south of Temirtau and just north of Karaganda East Kazakhstan Province — passing through the northern outskirts of Oskemen 50°0′N 85°2′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 85.033°E﻿ / 50.000; 85.033﻿ (Russia)  Russia Altai Republic Tuva 50°0′N 89°58′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 89.967°E﻿ / 50.000; 89.967﻿ (Mongolia)  Mongolia Passing through the southern tip of Uvs Lake 50°0′N 95°1′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 95.017°E﻿ / 50.000; 95.017﻿ (Russia)  Russia Tuva 50°0′N 95°45′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 95.750°E﻿ / 50.000; 95.750﻿ (Mongolia)  Mongolia For about 11 km 50°0′N 95°55′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 95.917°E﻿ / 50.000; 95.917﻿ (Russia)  Russia Tuva — for about 7 km 50°0′N 96°2′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 96.033°E﻿ / 50.000; 96.033﻿ (Mongolia)  Mongolia For about 11 km 50°0′N 96°10′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 96.167°E﻿ / 50.000; 96.167﻿ (Russia)  Russia Tuva 50°0′N 97°55′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 97.917°E﻿ / 50.000; 97.917﻿ (Mongolia)  Mongolia 50°0′N 107°13′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 107.217°E﻿ / 50.000; 107.217﻿ (Russia)  Russia Buryatia — for about 5 km 50°0′N 107°18′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 107.300°E﻿ / 50.000; 107.300﻿ (Mongolia)  Mongolia For about 3 km 50°0′N 107°20′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 107.333°E﻿ / 50.000; 107.333﻿ (Russia)  Russia Buryatia Zabaykalsky Krai 50°0′N 113°34′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 113.567°E﻿ / 50.000; 113.567﻿ (Mongolia)  Mongolia 50°0′N 115°12′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 115.200°E﻿ / 50.000; 115.200﻿ (Russia)  Russia Zabaykalsky Krai 50°0′N 116°1′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 116.017°E﻿ / 50.000; 116.017﻿ (Mongolia)  Mongolia 50°0′N 116°20′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 116.333°E﻿ / 50.000; 116.333﻿ (Russia)  Russia Zabaykalsky Krai 50°0′N 119°6′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 119.100°E﻿ / 50.000; 119.100﻿ (China)  People's Republic of China Inner Mongolia Heilongjiang 50°0′N 127°29′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 127.483°E﻿ / 50.000; 127.483﻿ (Russia)  Russia Amur Oblast Khabarovsk Krai 50°0′N 140°30′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 140.500°E﻿ / 50.000; 140.500﻿ (Strait of Tartary) Strait of Tartary 50°0′N 142°9′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 142.150°E﻿ / 50.000; 142.150﻿ (Russia)  Russia Sakhalin Oblast — island of Sakhalin 50°0′N 143°59′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 143.983°E﻿ / 50.000; 143.983﻿ (Sea of Okhotsk) Sea of Okhotsk 50°0′N 155°23′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 155.383°E﻿ / 50.000; 155.383﻿ (Russia)  Russia Sakhalin Oblast — island of Paramushir 50°0′N 155°24′E﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 155.400°E﻿ / 50.000; 155.400﻿ (Pacific Ocean) Pacific Ocean 50°0′N 127°19′W﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 127.317°W﻿ / 50.000; -127.317﻿ (Canada)  Canada British Columbia — Vancouver Island (passing through the town of Campbell River) and mainland, also through the Okanagan Valley immediately north of Kelowna. Alberta — passing through the city of Medicine Hat Saskatchewan it passes a few km south of the cities of Swift Current, Moose Jaw and the capital, Regina Manitoba — passing just north of Winnipeg Ontario — passing through Lake Nipigon Quebec - passing through the town of Port-Cartier 50°0′N 66°54′W﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 66.900°W﻿ / 50.000; -66.900﻿ (Gulf of Saint Lawrence) Gulf of Saint Lawrence Passing just north of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada 50°0′N 57°45′W﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 57.750°W﻿ / 50.000; -57.750﻿ (Canada)  Canada Newfoundland and Labrador — island of Newfoundland 50°0′N 56°46′W﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 56.767°W﻿ / 50.000; -56.767﻿ (White Bay) White Bay 50°0′N 56°21′W﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 56.350°W﻿ / 50.000; -56.350﻿ (Canada)  Canada Newfoundland and Labrador — island of Newfoundland 50°0′N 55°52′W﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 55.867°W﻿ / 50.000; -55.867﻿ (Atlantic Ocean) Atlantic Ocean Confusion Bay 50°0′N 55°33′W﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 55.550°W﻿ / 50.000; -55.550﻿ (Canada)  Canada Newfoundland and Labrador — island of Newfoundland 50°0′N 55°31′W﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 55.517°W﻿ / 50.000; -55.517﻿ (Atlantic Ocean) Atlantic Ocean Passing just north of the Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom 50°0′N 5°16′W﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 5.267°W﻿ / 50.000; -5.267﻿ (United Kingdom)  United Kingdom England — Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, for about 7 km 50°0′N 5°10′W﻿ / ﻿50.000°N 5.167°W﻿ / 50.000; -5.167﻿ (English Channel) English Channel

## Sakhalin island

From the signing of the 1875 Treaty of Saint Petersburg until the Russo-Japanese War which broke in 1904, the Russian Empire had full control of Sakhalin island. As a result of the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth that brought an end to the Russo-Japanese War, the portion of the island south of the 50th parallel line became Japanese territory, part of Karafuto Prefecture. However, following the month long Soviet–Japanese War during the summer of 1945, the entire island was reunified under Soviet control.