37th parallel north Totally Explained

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The parallel 37° north is an imaginary circle of latitude that's 37 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. Starting at the prime meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 37° north passes through:

The Mediterranean Sea
Algeria
Tunisia
Italy (Sicily)
The Ionian Sea
Greece (Peloponnese)
The Aegean Sea (including the Greek islands of Sifnos, Antiparos, Paros, Naxos, Levitha and Kalymnos)
Turkey
Syria
Iraq
Iran
The Caspian Sea
Turkmenistan
Afghanistan
Tajikistan
Kashmir (area administered by Pakistan)
The People's Republic of China
The Yellow Sea
South Korea
The Sea of Japan
Japan (Honshū)
The Pacific Ocean
The United States
The Atlantic Ocean
Portugal (Santa Maria Island in the Azores and the mainland)
Spain

United States

From west to east, the parallel 37° north passes through the states of California and Nevada, then forms the southern boundary of the states of Utah, Colorado, and Kansas and the northern boundary of the states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, before passing through Missouri, Illinois (where the area south of the parallel is only about 5 square miles), Kentucky and Virginia.
Landmarks on the parallel include Santa Cruz, California, Gilroy, California, Madera, California, Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley, Colorado City, Arizona/Hildale, Utah, Four Corners at the intersection with 32nd meridian west from Washington (the only place in the United States where four states touch), Cairo, Illinois, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Newport News, Virginia.
The parallel 37° north formed the southern boundary of the historic and extralegal Territory of Jefferson.
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