Back خط عرض 26° شمال Arabic 26. paralela (sjever) BS Paral·lel 26° nord Catalan 26. nordlige breddekreds Danish مدار ۲۶ درجه شمالی Persian 26e parallèle nord French 26 अक्षांश उत्तर Hindi 26-րդ հյուսիսային զուգահեռական Armenian Maika-26 a paralelo amianan ILO 北緯26度線 Japanese
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26th parallel north
The 26th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 26 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean.
A section of the border between Western Sahara and Mauritania is defined by the parallel.[1]
It is the most populous parallel on Earth, being home to between 247.2 million and 248.0 million people as of 2019.[2]
At this latitude the sun is visible for 13 hours, 46 minutes during the summer solstice and 10 hours, 31 minutes during the winter solstice. The sun is at 40.17 degrees in the sky during the winter solstice and 87.83 degrees in the sky during the summer solstice.[3]
- ^ Brownlie, Ian (1979). African Boundaries: A Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopedia. Institute for International Affairs, Hurst and Co. pp. 437–44.
- ^ "World Population Distribution by Latitude and Longitude". Engaging Data. 2019-03-18. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- ^ "Duration of Daylight/Darkness Table for One Year". U.S. Naval Observatory. 2019-09-24. Archived from the original on 2019-10-12. Retrieved 2021-03-10.