41st parallel north

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41st parallel north

The 41st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 41 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 15 hours, 8 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 13 minutes during the winter solstice.

Around the world

Starting at the prime meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 41° north passes through:

Co-ordinates	Country, territory or sea	Notes
	Spain
	Mediterranean Sea
	Italy	Island of Asinara
	Mediterranean Sea	Gulf of Asinara
	Italy	Island of Sardinia
	Mediterranean Sea	Tyrrhenian Sea - passing just north of the Pontine Islands, Italy
	Italy
	Adriatic Sea
	Albania	The border with Macedonia is in Lake Ohrid
	Macedonia
	Greece
	Turkey	Passing through the Sea of Marmara, and through Istanbul
	Black Sea
	Turkey
	Black Sea
	Turkey
	Armenia
	Azerbaijan	Barkhudali exclave
	Armenia
	Azerbaijan
	Caspian Sea
	Turkmenistan
	Uzbekistan
	Kazakhstan
	Uzbekistan	For about 7 km
	Kazakhstan	For about 12 km
	Uzbekistan
	Tajikistan	For about 10 km
	Uzbekistan
	Kyrgyzstan
	People's Republic of China	Xinjiang
	Kyrgyzstan	For about 7 km
	People's Republic of China	Xinjiang Gansu Inner Mongolia — passing about 20 km (12 mi) north of Hohhot Hebei Beijing - for about 7 km Hebei Liaoning Jilin
	North Korea	Jagang Province Yanggang Province Passing through Kaema Plateau North Hamgyeong Province
	Sea of Japan
	Japan	Island of Honshū — Aomori Prefecture
	Pacific Ocean
	United States	California Nevada Utah Wyoming / Utah border Wyoming / Colorado border Nebraska / Colorado border Nebraska Iowa Illinois Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania New Jersey New York Connecticut - for about 1 km
	Long Island Sound
	United States	New York - Long Island
	Atlantic Ocean
	Portugal	Passing about 20km south of Porto
	Spain

United States

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The 41st parallel north defining borders between states in the United States.

In the United States, the parallel defines the southernmost border of Wyoming (bordering Utah and Colorado), and part of the border between Nebraska and Colorado.

In 1606, King James I of England created the Colony of Virginia. He gave the London Company the right to "begin theire plantacions and habitacions in some fitt and conveniente place between fower and thirtie and one and fortie degrees of the said latitude all alongest the coaste of Virginia and coastes of America." The Jamestown Settlement was established roughly at the midpoint of that territory. The later Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony) settlers originally bound for the northern portion of the Virginia territory. Instead, they landed north of the 41st parallel on Cape Cod, where they had exclusive rights to the land under the charter for the Plymouth Colony.

As originally set by King Charles II of England in 1664, the point at which the 41st parallel crosses the Hudson River marks the northeastern border of New Jersey with New York. New Jersey's northern border then proceeds northwest to the easternmost point of the Delaware River.

The 41st parallel was also one of the principal baselines used for surveying a portion of lands in Ohio. This marked the southern boundary of the Connecticut Western Reserve and the Firelands using the western boundary with Pennsylvania as the principal meridian. It also served as the baseline for a later survey of Ohio land north of the Greenville Treaty line up to the Fulton line which was the original boundary between Michigan and Ohio under the Northwest Ordinance (see the Toledo Strip). The later survey used the boundary with Indiana as the meridian.

See also

• 40th parallel north
• 42nd parallel north