The european countries that lie north of the US-Canada border
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The european countries that lie north of the US-Canada border
Posted by vladgrinch
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Much of the Canada-United States border runs dead straight along the 49th parallel, the line of latitude marked here in red, for about 2,000 kilometres from the Pacific to the Great Lakes. Laid across Europe, that same line falls surprisingly far south. Everything shaded blue lies north of it: all of the British Isles, Scandinavia, the Baltic states, Belarus and most of Poland, Germany and the Low Countries. Paris, at just under 49 degrees north, sits a fraction to the south, which puts most of France, and all of Spain and Italy, below the line that forms Canada’s southern edge.
London sits at about 51.5 degrees north, further north than the entire Canada-US land border west of the Great Lakes, and roughly level with Calgary in Alberta.
Why is Canada colder than this part of Europe? Is it colder?
That’s the Weißwurschtäquator
Surely Canada is colder than Germany and the UK right?
And Rome is further north than New York City, which somehow doesn’t seem right, but it is.
Wait, can you interpolate this out to a straight, completely horizontal line? I feel like it would be angled
The western Canada / US border*
Most of Canadas population is south of that line.
What part of the border? The southernmost point, the longest stretch, or the average latitude?
Would’ve been quite easy to have a second colour for those that are partly above the line too
The line needs to be curved
OP should have used a Mercator map. I’m 99 % sure that straight line doesn’t follow any single latitude but curves to the south towards the edges of the image.
Complete it by showing the countries south of it
And still my Dutch winter sucks and rarely brings snow. I hate it.
*Not including Alaska/Yukon.
If you sailed due west from Ireland, you’d eventually arrive at Labrador, which shows the importance of the Gulf Stream!
This map demonstrates why the Mercator projection continues to be popular. It’s drawback of distorting distances near the poles is amply compensated by its advantage of making the lines of latitude and longitude straight lines. Since the map doesn’t use the Mercator projection, it’s only by luck that it’s close enough to the 49th parallel (at least in the center of the map) for the marked countries to be correct.
Ain’t no way
Bunch of liars
Hahahaha Thats exactly where all my genetics are from.
Most Canadians live south of that line.
TIL americans are southerners
It’s wild to me that New York is almost on the same latitude as Madrid, and most of the US even closer to the equator.
The line should curve on this projection.
To all americans: we have polar bears on unicycles here in Poland. Entire country full of them! /s
That’s why you should never trust them.
I once looked it up. Like 150 000 people in Canada permanently live as north as Finland is. For refrence my city of Turku in south-western Finland has population of some 220 000 people. Most of population of Sweden and norway live more south than Finland.
I am always slightly confused by the fact that Finland is populated at all…
As someone from the south of Germany, the UK was always above Germany (to the left) to me, I only noticed once I moved to Berlin that London is actually on the same height as Berlin.
Makes you wonder what Europe would look like if the golf stream stopped flowing.
Gibraltar (UK) n’est pas au nord de cette ligne !
Ireland has mild weather compared to others in Europe. To the west the gulf stream keeps the Irish waters warm throughout the year and the UK blocks most of the bad weather coming from the east.
Calling this line the US-Canada border is pretty misleading. This line seems to be roughly showing the 49th parallel. About 70% of Canada’s population lives south of that line.
Hey Ireland. Wanna set up some trade for our whisky?
“why dont europeans have AC?”