50th parallel north

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50th parallel north

The 50th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 50 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.

At this latitude the sun is visible for 16 hours, 22 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 4 minutes during the winter solstice.^[1] The maximum altitude of the sun on the summer solstice is 63.5 degrees and on the winter solstice it is 16.5 degrees.^[2]

At this latitude, the average sea surface temperature between 1982 and 2011 was about 8.5°C (47.3°F).^[3]

Around the world

50th latitude mark in central Mainz, Germany

50th parallel north memorial at Kharkiv, Ukraine

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 50° north passes through:

Co-ordinates	Country, territory or sea	Notes
50°0′N 0°0′E / 50.000°N 0.000°E	English Channel
50°0′N 1°15′E / 50.000°N 1.250°E	France	Upper Normandy — for about 20 km Picardy — passing just north of Amiens Nord-Pas-de-Calais — for about 13 km
50°0′N 4°10′E / 50.000°N 4.167°E	Belgium	Wallonia
50°0′N 4°40′E / 50.000°N 4.667°E	France	Champagne-Ardenne — for about 10 km
50°0′N 4°49′E / 50.000°N 4.817°E	Belgium	Wallonia
50°0′N 5°49′E / 50.000°N 5.817°E	Luxembourg	Diekirch District
50°0′N 6°9′E / 50.000°N 6.150°E	Germany	Rhineland-Palatinate Hesse Rhineland-Palatinate — passing through Mainz city centre Hesse — passing just south of Frankfurt, crossing a runway of FRA international airport and passing just south of DCF77 time signal transmitter Bavaria — passing just north of Bayreuth
50°0′N 12°26′E / 50.000°N 12.433°E	Czech Republic	Passing through southern parts of Prague
50°0′N 17°49′E / 50.000°N 17.817°E	Poland	For about 11 km
50°0′N 17°58′E / 50.000°N 17.967°E	Czech Republic	For about 10 km
50°0′N 18°7′E / 50.000°N 18.117°E	Poland	Passing through southern districts of Kraków (where crosses with 20th meridian east) and Rzeszów
50°0′N 23°10′E / 50.000°N 23.167°E	Ukraine	Lviv Oblast — passing just north of Lviv Ternopil Oblast — passing through Pochaiv Khmelnytskyi Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast — passing through Andrushivka Kiev Oblast Cherkasy Oblast Poltava Oblast — passing through Lubny Kharkiv Oblast — passing through Kharkiv city centre
50°0′N 37°57′E / 50.000°N 37.950°E	Russia	Belgorod Oblast — for about 18 km
50°0′N 38°12′E / 50.000°N 38.200°E	Ukraine	Luhansk Oblast — for about 12 km
50°0′N 38°22′E / 50.000°N 38.367°E	Russia	Belgorod Oblast Voronezh Oblast Rostov Oblast Volgograd Oblast
50°0′N 47°15′E / 50.000°N 47.250°E	Kazakhstan	West Kazakhstan Province
50°0′N 48°8′E / 50.000°N 48.133°E	Russia	Saratov Oblast
50°0′N 48°51′E / 50.000°N 48.850°E	Kazakhstan	West Kazakhstan Province Aktobe Province Kostanay Province Karagandy Province — passing just north of Karaganda East Kazakhstan Province — passing just north of Oskemen
50°0′N 85°2′E / 50.000°N 85.033°E	Russia	Altai Republic Tuva
50°0′N 89°58′E / 50.000°N 89.967°E	Mongolia	Passing through the southern tip of Uvs Lake
50°0′N 95°1′E / 50.000°N 95.017°E	Russia	Tuva
50°0′N 95°45′E / 50.000°N 95.750°E	Mongolia	For about 11 km
50°0′N 95°55′E / 50.000°N 95.917°E	Russia	Tuva — for about 7 km
50°0′N 96°2′E / 50.000°N 96.033°E	Mongolia	For about 11 km
50°0′N 96°10′E / 50.000°N 96.167°E	Russia	Tuva
50°0′N 97°55′E / 50.000°N 97.917°E	Mongolia
50°0′N 107°13′E / 50.000°N 107.217°E	Russia	Buryatia — for about 5 km
50°0′N 107°18′E / 50.000°N 107.300°E	Mongolia	For about 3 km
50°0′N 107°20′E / 50.000°N 107.333°E	Russia	Buryatia Zabaykalsky Krai
50°0′N 113°34′E / 50.000°N 113.567°E	Mongolia
50°0′N 115°12′E / 50.000°N 115.200°E	Russia	Zabaykalsky Krai
50°0′N 116°1′E / 50.000°N 116.017°E	Mongolia
50°0′N 116°20′E / 50.000°N 116.333°E	Russia	Zabaykalsky Krai
50°0′N 119°6′E / 50.000°N 119.100°E	People's Republic of China	Inner Mongolia Heilongjiang
50°0′N 127°29′E / 50.000°N 127.483°E	Russia	Amur Oblast Khabarovsk Krai
50°0′N 140°30′E / 50.000°N 140.500°E	Strait of Tartary
50°0′N 142°9′E / 50.000°N 142.150°E	Russia	Sakhalin Oblast — island of Sakhalin
50°0′N 143°59′E / 50.000°N 143.983°E	Sea of Okhotsk
50°0′N 155°23′E / 50.000°N 155.383°E	Russia	Sakhalin Oblast — island of Paramushir
50°0′N 155°24′E / 50.000°N 155.400°E	Pacific Ocean
50°0′N 127°19′W / 50.000°N 127.317°W	Canada	British Columbia — Vancouver Island (passing through the town of Campbell River) and mainland Alberta — passing through the city of Medicine Hat Saskatchewan Manitoba — passing just north of Winnipeg Ontario — passing through Lake Nipigon Quebec
50°0′N 66°54′W / 50.000°N 66.900°W	Gulf of Saint Lawrence	Passing just north of Anticosti Island, Quebec,  Canada
50°0′N 57°45′W / 50.000°N 57.750°W	Canada	Newfoundland and Labrador — island of Newfoundland
50°0′N 56°46′W / 50.000°N 56.767°W	White Bay
50°0′N 56°21′W / 50.000°N 56.350°W	Canada	Newfoundland and Labrador — island of Newfoundland
50°0′N 55°52′W / 50.000°N 55.867°W	Atlantic Ocean	Confusion Bay
50°0′N 55°33′W / 50.000°N 55.550°W	Canada	Newfoundland and Labrador — island of Newfoundland
50°0′N 55°31′W / 50.000°N 55.517°W	Atlantic Ocean	Passing just north of the Isles of Scilly, England,  United Kingdom
50°0′N 5°16′W / 50.000°N 5.267°W	United Kingdom	England — Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, for about 7 km
50°0′N 5°10′W / 50.000°N 5.167°W	English Channel

Sakhalin island

During the Empire of Japan era, from 1905 to 1945, the 50th parallel marked the border between the Karafuto Prefecture of Japan to the south with the Russian Empire, and later the Soviet Union, to the north in the island of Sakhalin. The entire island came under Soviet control after World War II.^[4]

See also

• 49th parallel north
• 51st parallel north

References

1. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php
2. http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/151843/
3. https://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/zonal-mean-sst-1982-2011-average.png
4. Sevela, Mariya. "Sakhalin: the Japanese Under Soviet Rule". History Today. Retrieved 10 May 2014.