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The 15th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 15 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.It crosses the Saharan fringe (the Sahel) in Africa, three key peninsulas of Asia (between which parts of the Indian Ocean), the Pacific Ocean, an isthmus of Central America, the southern Caribbean, and the Atlantic Ocean.
This template returns an abbreviation to sort tables by location. It uses the 7-continent system. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Location 1 Enter a country's name, continent's name, or 2-letter continent code (AF, AN, AS, EU, OC, NA, or SA) as the template's only parameter. Example 'Mexico ...
Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes Arctic Ocean: Norway: Island of Spitsbergen, Svalbard: Atlantic Ocean: Greenland Sea Norwegian Sea: Norway: Islands of Langøya, Austvågøy and Hinnøya
The African and European mainlands are non-contiguous, and the delineation between these continents is thus merely a question of which islands are to be associated with which continent. The Portuguese Atlantic island possession of the Azores is 1,368 km (850 mi) from Europe and 1,507 km (936 mi) from Africa, and is sometimes grouped with Europe.
The parameters align (left, center, or, by default, right) and size (default 300px width) may be used to set the template's horizontal position and the image's size per, respectively, the Location and Size entries here.
This is a list of continental landmasses, continents, and continental subregions by population. For statistical convenience, the population of continental landmasses also include the population of their associated islands .
The T is the Mediterranean, the Nile, and the Don (formerly called the Tanais) dividing the three continents, Asia, Europe and Africa, and the O is the encircling ocean. Jerusalem was generally represented in the center of the map as the navel of the world, the umbilicus mundi. Asia was typically the size of the other two continents combined.
Animation of the break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea and the subsequent drift of its constituents, from the Early Triassic to recent (250 Ma to 0).. This is a list of paleocontinents, significant landmasses that have been proposed to exist in the geological past.