23rd parallel north

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23rd parallel north

The 23rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 23 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, North America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean.

At this latitude the sun is visible for 13 hours, 33 minutes during the summer solstice and 10 hours, 43 minutes during the winter solstice.[1]

Around the world

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 23° 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.  Niger
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.  Chad
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. Hala'ib Triangle Claimed by both Egypt and Sudan - Egypt controls the territory
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.  United Arab Emirates Emirate of Abu Dhabi
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Oman
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Indian Ocean Arabian Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  India Gujarat
Madhya Pradesh
Chhattisgarh
Jharkhand
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 Tripura - for about 20 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 Mizoram
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
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Vietnam
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  People's Republic of China Guangxi
Guangdong — passing just south of Guangzhou
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. South China Sea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Republic of China Island of Taiwan (claimed by  People's Republic of China)
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pacific Ocean Passing just south of the island of Nihoa, Hawaii,  United States
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Mexico Baja California peninsula
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
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.  Cuba Passing just south of Havana
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 Long Island
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean Passing just north of Crooked Island,  Bahamas
Passing just south of Samana Cay,  Bahamas
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Western Sahara Claimed by  Morocco
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.  Mali
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Algeria

See also

References

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