39th parallel north

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39th parallel north

The 39th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 39 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.

At this latitude the sun is visible for 14 hours, 54 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 26 minutes during the winter solstice.

Daylight along the 39th parallel north falls under 10 hours a day starting on November 18 and returns to over ten hours a day beginning January 24. Crops and other plant growth is considerably slowed during this period of reduced sunlight.^{[citation needed]}
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 39° north passes through:

Co-ordinates	Country, territory or sea	Notes
39°0′N 0°0′E	Mediterranean Sea
39°0′N 1°17′E	Spain	Island of Ibiza
39°0′N 0°0′E	Mediterranean Sea	Passing just south of the island of Cabrera, Spain
39°0′N 8°23′E	Italy	Islands of Sant'Antioco and Sardinia
39°0′N 9°1′E	Mediterranean Sea	Tyrrhenian Sea - passing just north of the island of Stromboli, Italy
39°0′N 16°8′E	Italy
39°0′N 17°10′E	Mediterranean Sea	Ionian Sea
39°0′N 20°42′E	Greece	Mainland and island of Euboea
39°0′N 23°22′E	Aegean Sea	Passing just north of the island of Skyros, Greece
39°0′N 26°17′E	Greece	Island of Lesbos
39°0′N 26°32′E	Aegean Sea
39°0′N 26°48′E	Turkey
39°0′N 44°11′E	Iran
39°0′N 45°26′E	Azerbaijan	Nakhchivan exclave
39°0′N 46°6′E	Armenia
39°0′N 46°31′E	Azerbaijan
39°0′N 46°41′E	Iran
39°0′N 48°21′E	Azerbaijan
39°0′N 49°11′E	Caspian Sea
39°0′N 53°2′E	Turkmenistan	Island of Ogurja Ada
39°0′N 53°3′E	Caspian Sea
39°0′N 53°53′E	Turkmenistan
39°0′N 64°6′E	Uzbekistan
39°0′N 68°7′E	Tajikistan
39°0′N 73°49′E	People's Republic of China	Xinjiang Qinghai Gansu Qinghai Gansu Qinghai (for about 7 km) Gansu (for about 30 km) Qinghai (for about 17 km) Gansu Inner Mongolia (for about 16 km) Gansu (for about 6 km) Inner Mongolia Gansu Inner Mongolia Ningxia Inner Mongolia Shaanxi Shanxi Hebei Tianjin (just south of the city centre)
39°0′N 117°46′E	Yellow Sea (Bohai Gulf)
39°0′N 121°19′E	People's Republic of China	Liaoning (Liaodong Peninsula) — passing just north of Dalian
39°0′N 121°51′E	Yellow Sea	Passing just south of Zhangzi Island and Haiyang Island
39°0′N 125°12′E	North Korea	Passing through Pyongyang
39°0′N 127°50′E	Sea of Japan
39°0′N 139°51′E	Japan	Island of Honshū: — Yamagata Prefecture — Akita Prefecture — Iwate Prefecture — Miyagi Prefecture − for about 1 km — Iwate Prefecture
39°0′N 141°44′E	Pacific Ocean
39°0′N 123°42′W	United States	California Nevada Utah Colorado Kansas Missouri Illinois Indiana Kentucky Ohio West Virginia Virginia Maryland - cutting through the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Delaware
39°0′N 75°20′W	Delaware Bay
39°0′N 74°57′W	United States	New Jersey
39°0′N 74°47′W	Atlantic Ocean	Passing between the islands of Graciosa (almost crossing its southern tip) and São Jorge, Azores, Portugal
39°0′N 9°25′W	Portugal
39°0′N 6°58′W	Spain
39°0′N 0°9′W	Mediterranean Sea

See also

• 38th parallel north
• 40th parallel north