Circles of latitude between the 45th parallel north and the 50th parallel north

Following are circles of latitude between the 45th parallel north and the 50th parallel north:

46th parallel north

The 46th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 46 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 15 hours, 45 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 38 minutes during the winter solstice.

Around the world Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 46° north passes through:

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! scope="row" | | Passing between Melle and Angoulême

! scope="row" | | Passing north of Limoges

! scope="row" | | Passing north of Lyon

! scope="row" | | Passing through the Valais canton

! scope="row" | | Passing through Lake Maggiore near Luino

! scope="row" | | Passing through Lake Lugano and the city centre of Lugano

! scope="row" | | Passing through Lake Como

! scope="row" | | Passing just south of Trento

! scope="row" | | Passing just south of Udine

! scope="row" | | Passing just south of Ljubljana

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! scope="row" | | For about 7 km

! scope="row" | | For about 4 km

! scope="row" | | For about 2 km

! scope="row" | | For about 5 km

! scope="row" | | passing just south of Subotica

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! scope="row" | | Passing through the Aral Sea and Lake Balkhash

! scope="row" | | Xinjiang

! scope="row" | | Île d'Oléron and the mainland

47th parallel north

The 47th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 47 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 15 hours, 54 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 31 minutes during the winter solstice. This is the northern limit of the visibility of the star θ Scorpii and thus of the 'tail' of the constellation Scorpius.

Around the world Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 47° north passes through:

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! scope="row" | | Passing just south of Nantes, Montsoreau and Bourges

! scope="row" | | Passing just north of Bern

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! scope="row" | |For roughly 300 meters at Grübelekopf

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! scope="row" | | For about 4 km

! scope="row" | | For about 3 km

! scope="row" | | For about 7 km

! scope="row" | | For about 14 km

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! scope="row" | | Passing through Lake Balaton

! scope="row" | | Odesa OblastMykolaiv Oblast — passing through MykolaivKherson Oblast — passing through Kakhovka ReservoirZaporizhzhia Oblast — passing just north of Melitopolpassing just south of MariupolDonetsk Oblast — passing through Bilosarayska Spit |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Sea of Azov | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Taganrog Bay

! scope="row" | | Passing just south of Rostov-on-Don

! scope="row" | | Just passing through the northern end of the Caspian Sea

! scope="row" | | Xinjiang

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! scope="row" | | Xinjiang - for about 11 km

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! scope="row" | | Xinjiang

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! scope="row" | | Maine

! scope="row" | | Belle-Île-en-Mer and Île de Noirmoutier and mainland

48th parallel north

The 48th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 48 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.

In Canada the parallel forms part of the border between Quebec and New Brunswick.

Ships heading north along the coast of Washington toward the Strait of Juan de Fuca must make radio contact with Canadian Coast Guard vessel traffic service upon crossing the 48th parallel.

At this latitude the sun is visible for 16 hours, 3 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 22 minutes during the winter solstice. If the latitude in the northern hemisphere is 48º50' or smaller, it is possible to view both astronomical dawn and dusk every day of the month of July. At the latitude of 48°33′38.58804” North, which is about 62.3 km (38.7 mi) north of this parallel, is the parallel where twilight/nighttime boundary on the June Solstice.

Around the world Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 48° north passes through:

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! scope="row" | |Brains-sur-Gée commune, Sarthe department |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Baden-Württemberg - passing through Freiburg im Breisgau, less than 1 km north of the city centre Bavaria - passing through Lake Ammer, and passing just south of Munich

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! scope="row" | | For about 8 km

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! scope="row" | | For about 6 km - Vynohradiv Raion

! scope="row" | | For about 4 km

! scope="row" | | For about 4 km - Vynohradiv Raion

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! scope="row" | | Zakarpattia Oblast — passing just south of Rakhiv Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast

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! scope="row" | | Passing through Transnistria

! scope="row" | | Odesa Oblast — passing just north of BaltaMykolaiv Oblast — passing just north of YuzhnoukrainskKirovohrad OblastMykolaiv Oblast — for about 8 kmKirovohrad Oblast — for about 2 kmDnipropetrovsk Oblast — passing through Kryvyi RihZaporizhzhia Oblast — passing just north of ZaporizhzhiaDonetsk Oblast — passing through DonetskLuhansk Oblast — passing just south of Dovzhansk |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Rostov Oblast Volgograd Oblast Kalmykia Astrakhan Oblast

Circles of latitude between the 45th parallel north and the 50th parallel north

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