53rd parallel north

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53rd parallel north

The 53rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 53 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 16 hours, 56 minutes during the summer solstice and 7 hours, 34 minutes during the winter solstice.[1]

Around the world

Starting at the Prime Meridian (northeast of Boston, Lincolnshire, England) and heading eastwards, the parallel 53° north passes through:

Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United Kingdom England
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. North Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Netherlands Island of Texel (Province of North Holland)
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Wadden Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Netherlands Provinces of Friesland, Drenthe and Groningen
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Germany
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Poland
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Belarus
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Kazakhstan For about 10 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia For about 7 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Kazakhstan For about 12 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia For about 18 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Kazakhstan For about 4 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia For about 15 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Kazakhstan
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia Passing through Lake Baikal
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  People's Republic of China Inner Mongolia
Heilongjiang
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Strait of Tartary
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia Island of Sakhalin
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Sea of Okhotsk
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Russia Kamchatka Peninsula
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pacific Ocean
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United States Alaska - Attu Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Bering Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United States Alaska - Kagamil Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Bering Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United States Alaska - Umnak Island, Alaska
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pacific Ocean Gulf of Alaska
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada British Columbia - Hibben Island, Moresby Island and Louise Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Hecate Strait
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada British Columbia - Estevan Group, Campania Island, Princess Royal Island and the mainland
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba - passing through Lake Winnipegosis and Lake Winnipeg
Ontario
Nunavut - Akimiski Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. James Bay
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Canada Quebec
Newfoundland and Labrador
Quebec - for about 10 km
Newfoundland and Labrador
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.  Ireland
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Irish Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  United Kingdom Wales
England

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