33rd parallel north
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The 33rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 33 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean.
In Iraq, the parallel defined the limit of the southern no-fly zone from 4 September 1996 to 30 August 2003. (Before this time it had been set at the 32nd parallel north.) This airspace was controlled by Operation Southern Watch.[1]
In the United States it approximately forms the border between Arkansas in the north and Louisiana on the south. (The border is actually a couple of kilometres north of the parallel.) The Louisiana Territory was that part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase which lay north of the 33rd parallel.
The parallel is part of the horse latitudes.
At this latitude the sun is visible for 14 hours, 20 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 58 minutes during the winter solstice.[2]
Around the world
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 33° north passes through:
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Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Algeria
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Tunisia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Libya
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mediterranean Sea Passing just north of Tripoli, Libya
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Israel
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Golan Heights Territory controlled by Israel, claimed by
Syria
UNDOF buffer zoneLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Syria
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Jordan
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Iraq
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Iran
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Afghanistan
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pakistan
Federally Administered Tribal Areas
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Punjab
Azad Kashmir - claimed byIndia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. India
Jammu and Kashmir - claimed by Pakistan
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir - claimed byPakistan
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Aksai Chin Disputed between India and
People's Republic of China
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. People's Republic of China
Tibet
Qinghai
Sichuan
Qinghai
Sichuan
Gansu
Shaanxi
Hubei
Henan
Anhui
Jiangsu
Anhui (for about 12 km)
JiangsuLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. East China Sea Passing just south of the island of Marado, South Korea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Japan
Island of Nakadori:
— Nagasaki Prefecture
Island of Kyūshū:
— Nagasaki Prefecture
— Saga Prefecture
— Kumamoto Prefecture
— Ōita Prefecture
Island of Shikoku:
— Ehime Prefecture
— Kōchi PrefectureLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pacific Ocean Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. United States
California - San Clemente Island Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pacific Ocean Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. United States
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Louisiana - passing just south of the border with Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
South CarolinaLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Portugal
Cal Islet, just south of Porto Santo Island, Madeira Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Morocco
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Algeria
See also
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php