26th parallel north

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26°

26th parallel north

In Africa, the parallel defines part of the border between Western Sahara and Mauritania.

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.

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^[1]

Around the world

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 26° 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	Gulf of Bahrain
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	Bahrain
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	Persian Gulf	Gulf of Bahrain
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	Qatar
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	Persian Gulf	Passing between the islands of Bani Forur and Sirri, Iran Passing between the Tunb Islands and the island of Abu Musa, controlled by Iran but claimed by United Arab Emirates
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	United Arab Emirates
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	Oman	Musandam peninsula
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	Indian Ocean	Gulf of Oman
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 Madhya Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Bihar West Bengal
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	Bangladesh
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	India	West Bengal - for about 4 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	Bangladesh
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	India	Assam Meghalaya Assam Nagaland
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 Guizhou Guangxi Hunan (passing between Guangxi and Hunan several times) Jiangxi Fujian — passing just south of Fuzhou
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	East China Sea	Passing just north of the disputed Senkaku Islands
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	Pacific Ocean	Passing just south of the island of Okinawa, Japan Passing just north of the island of Kita Daito, Japan Passing just south of Lisianski Island, Hawaii, United States Passing just north of the atoll of Laysan, Hawaii, United States
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	Mexico	Baja California Sur
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	Baja California Sur - Isla Carmen
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	Sinaloa Chihuahua Durango Coahuila Nuevo León Tamaulipas
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	United States	Texas
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	Island of Great Abaco
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.	Western Sahara	Claimed by Morocco and the Sahrawi Republic
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.	Western Sahara / Mauritania border
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

References

↑ http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php

[1] ttp://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php

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