27th parallel north

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Line across the Earth
27°
27th parallel north

The 27th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 27 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean.

At this latitude the sun is visible for 13 hours, 51 minutes during the summer solstice and 10 hours, 26 minutes during the winter solstice.[1]

Around the world

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 27° north passes through:

Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Algeria
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Libya
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Egypt
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Red Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Saudi Arabia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Persian Gulf Passing just north of Lavan Island,  Iran
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Iran
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Persian Gulf Passing just north of Qeshm island,  Iran
Passing just south of Hormuz Island,  Iran
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Iran
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Pakistan Balochistan
Sindh
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  India Rajasthan
Uttar Pradesh
Bihar
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.    Nepal
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  India West Bengal
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Bhutan
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  India Arunachal Pradesh - claimed by  People's Republic of China
Assam
Arunachal Pradesh
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Myanmar (Burma)
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  People's Republic of China Yunnan
Sichuan
Yunnan
Guizhou
Hunan (for about 4 km)
Guizhou
Hunan
Jiangxi
Fujian
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. East China Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Japan Iheya island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pacific Ocean Passing just north of Okinawa Island,  Japan
Passing just south of Yoronjima,  Japan
Passing just south of Chichi-jima,  Japan
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Mexico Baja California peninsula
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Gulf of California
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Mexico Passing just south of Navojoa, Sonora
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United States Texas - mainland and Padre Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Gulf of Mexico
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United States Florida
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Bahamas Great Sale Cay
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean Passing between the Fish Cays and the Pensacola Cays,  Bahamas
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Western Sahara Claimed by  Morocco
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Mauritania
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Algeria

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