49th parallel
US-Canada boundary
The 49th parallel is the line of latitude at 49 degrees north, forming most of the border between the United States and Canada from the Pacific coast to the Lake of the Woods in Minnesota.
The term often serves as shorthand for the U.S.-Canada boundary itself: They crossed the 49th parallel into British Columbia.
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- latitudeGeographic or personal freedom
- Pacific NorthwestCoastal American region, northward
- Great LakesFive connected inland seas
- cross-border tradeExchange of goods between nations
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- linesstraight line, line, dotted line, dashed line, solid line
- Latitudesequator, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, North Pole, South Pole
- North American BordersUS-Canada border, US-Mexico border, Mexican border, Canadian border, state lines
- surveyingsurveyor, theodolite, land surveys, survey markers, triangulation
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Midpoint circle of rotation
Southern Hemisphere · South Pole · Antarctic Circle · Tropic of Capricorn · Antarctic
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Korean division latitude
Berlin Wall · DMZ · Rio Grande · Mason-Dixon Line · Iron Curtain
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