37th parallel north

The **37th parallel north** is a circle of latitude that is 37 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Africa, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.

At this latitude, the sun can be seen for 14 hours, 42 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 37 minutes during the winter solstice. This is about the northern limit of the visibility of Canopus, the second-brightest star of the night sky.

## Around the world

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

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| Cap Bon
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 Qinghai
 Gansu
 Ningxia
 Gansu
 Shaanxi
 Shanxi
 Hebei
 Shandong
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Gyeonggi Province
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— Niigata Prefecture
— Nagano Prefecture
— Niigata Prefecture
— Gunma Prefecture − for around 10 km
— Niigata Prefecture − for around 7 km
— Fukushima Prefecture
— Tochigi Prefecture
— Ibaraki Prefecture
— Fukushima Prefecture
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 passing through Mount Huffinpuff
Nevada
 Utah / Arizona border
 Colorado / New Mexico border
 Colorado / Oklahoma border
 Kansas / Oklahoma border
 Missouri
 Illinois (at its southernmost point)
 Kentucky
 Virginia - passing through Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (specifically, the bridge between the two tunnels)
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## United States

In the United States, the parallel is the southern borders of Utah, Colorado, and Kansas, and the northern borders of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. The border comes from the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 when Congress divided Indian Territory into Kansas and Nebraska north of the 37th parallel. They gave the rest to the Indian Territory to the south.