37TH PARALLEL NORTH

The 'parallel 37° north' is an imaginary circle of latitude that is 37 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
Starting at the prime meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 37° north passes through:

★ The Mediterranean Sea;

★ Algeria;

★ Tunisia;

★ Italy (Sicily);

★ The Ionian Sea;

★ Greece (Peloponnese);

★ The Aegean Sea (including the Greek islands of Sifnos, Antiparos, Paros, Naxos, Levitha and Kalymnos);

★ Turkey;

★ Syria;

★ Iraq;

★ Iran;

★ The Caspian Sea;

★ Turkmenistan;

★ Afghanistan;

★ Tajikistan;

★ Kashmir (area administered by Pakistan);

★ The People's Republic of China;

★ The Yellow Sea;

★ South Korea;

★ The Sea of Japan;

★ Japan (Honshū);

★ The Pacific Ocean;

★ The United States;

★ The Atlantic Ocean;

★ Portugal (Santa Maria Island in the Azores and the mainland);

★ Spain.

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United States

United States

The parallel 37° north forms the southern boundary of the states of Kansas, Colorado, and Utah and the northern boundary of the states of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona. The intersection of the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah at the Four Corners is the only place in the United States where four states touch.
From west to east, the parallel passes through (or forms the boundary of) the following states: California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Virginia.
The parallel 37° north formed the southern boundary of the historic and extralegal Territory of Jefferson.