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The 36th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 36 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa , the Mediterranean Sea , Asia , the Pacific Ocean , North America and the Atlantic Ocean .
Map of the United States c. 1849 (modern state borders), with the parallel 36°30′ north—slave states in red, free states in blue This 1856 map shows slave states (gray), free states (pink), U.S. territories (green), and Kansas in center (white) with parallel 36°30′ north prominently indicated.
36th parallel south, a circle of latitude in the Southern Hemisphere Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title 36th parallel .
The 37th parallel north is roughly the northern limit of the visibility of Canopus, the second-brightest star of the night sky. Along with the 37th parallel south , it is the latitude at which solar irradiance is closest to the planetary average, [ 2 ] with higher solar irradiance equatorward and lower poleward.
That year, Charles II of England modified the charter of Carolina to grant the colony control over the entire Albemarle Sound, which caused the boundary to follow the 36th parallel north, 34 miles (55 km) north of the original boundary. In practice, the idea was that the boundary would follow through when the state of Tennessee was established.
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From 1992 to the United States-led coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003, there were two NFZs in Iraq. The NFZ in the north of Iraq was established shortly after the Gulf War, extending from the 36th parallel northwards. In August 1992 the NFZ in the south to the 32nd parallel was established, [13] but in 1996 it was expanded to the 33rd parallel ...
In popular usage to people from the United States, the Mason–Dixon line symbolizes a cultural boundary between the North and the South . Originally "Mason and Dixon's Line" simply referred to the border between Pennsylvania (including "the Delaware Counties") and Maryland.