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Latitude Locations 90° N North Pole: 75° N: Arctic Ocean; Russia; northern Canada; Greenland: 60° N: Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; major parts of Nordic countries in EU; St. Petersburg, Russia; southern Alaska United States; southern border of the Yukon and the Northwest territories in Canada; Shetland, UK (Scotland)
If manmade land is not accepted, the continental southernmost point is located slightly more to the North at 36°00'25"N. Westernmost point. Cabo da Roca, Portugal (9°29'56.44 W). [1] [note 1] Easternmost point. The easternmost point is dependent upon the various definitions of Europe's eastern border.
The annual average rainfall in continental Portugal varies from a bit more than 2,000 mm (78.7 in) in the mountains in the north to less than 500 mm (19.7 in) in southern parts of Alentejo, however in Macaronesia, Pico Island holds the record with over 6,250 mm (246.1 in) and the Savage Islands around 200 mm (7.9 in). Portugal as a whole is ...
The North Region (Portuguese: Região do Norte [ʁɨʒiˈɐ̃w du ˈnɔɾtɨ]) or Northern Portugal is the most populous region in Portugal, ahead of Lisbon, and the third most extensive by area. The region has 3,576,205 inhabitants according to the 2017 census, and its area is 21,278 kilometres (13,222 mi) with a density of 173 inhabitants per ...
Westernmost point — Cabo da Roca (38.780963, -9.500552), civil parish of Colares, municipality of Sintra, also the westernmost point of continental Europe; [2] Easternmost point — Ifanes e Paradela (41.574886, -6.190217), municipality of Miranda do Douro; Centermost — Penhascoso, Portugal (39.5571,-8.04276), Municipality in Portugal
Mainland Eurasia is entirely located within the northern hemisphere and mostly within the eastern hemisphere, yet it touches the western hemisphere on both extremes. Thus, both the easternmost and westernmost points of Eurasia are in the western hemisphere. Mainland Eurasia crosses 200° of longitude and 76° of latitude north to south.
Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe.Featuring the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the ...
Europe has less precipitation in the east than in central and western Europe. The temperature difference between summer and winter gradually increases from coastal northwest Europe to southeast inland Europe, ranging from Ireland, with a temperature difference of only 10 °C from the warmest to the coldest month, to the area north of the ...