47th parallel north explained

The 47th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 47 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 15 hours, 54 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 31 minutes during the winter solstice.^[1] This is the northern limit of the visibility of the star θ Scorpii and thus of the 'tail' of the constellation Scorpius.

Around the world

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 47° north passes through:

Co-ordinates	Country, territory or sea	Notes
		Passing just south of Nantes, Montsoreau and Bourges
		Passing just north of Bern
		For roughly 300 meters at Grübelekopf
		For about 4 km
		For about 3 km
		For about 7 km
		For about 14 km
		Passing through Lake Balaton
		Passing just south of Oradea and Iași
		Passing through Chișinău Passing through Transnistria
		Odesa Oblast Mykolaiv Oblast — passing through Mykolaiv Kherson Oblast — passing through Kakhovka Reservoir Zaporizhzhia Oblast — passing just north of Melitopol Donetsk Oblast — passing through Bilosarayska Spit
	Sea of Azov	Taganrog Bay
		Just passing through the northern end of the Caspian Sea
		Xinjiang
		Xinjiang - for about 11 km
		Xinjiang
		Inner Mongolia Heilongjiang
	Sea of Japan
		Sakhalin island
	Sea of Okhotsk
		Island of Simushir, Kuril Islands
	Pacific Ocean
		Washington - Ellensburg
	Red River of the North	North Dakota - crosses state line with Minnesota on the Red River of the North near Fargo
			Minnesota - intersects 92nd Meridian W near Duluth
	Lake Superior	Minnesota - crosses over North Shore of Lake Superior at Two Harbors
		Wisconsin - Apostle Islands
	Lake Superior
		Michigan - Keweenaw Peninsula
	Lake Superior
		Ontario Quebec - passing just north of Montmagny
		Maine
		New Brunswick
	Gulf of Saint Lawrence	Northumberland Strait
		Prince Edward Island
	Gulf of Saint Lawrence
		Nova Scotia - Cape Breton Island
	Cabot Strait
	Atlantic Ocean
		Miquelon Island
	Atlantic Ocean
		Newfoundland and Labrador - Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland Island
	Placentia Bay
		Newfoundland and Labrador - Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland Island
	Atlantic Ocean
		Belle-Île-en-Mer and Île de Noirmoutier and mainland

See also

• 46th parallel north
• 48th parallel north

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2019-09-24. Duration of Daylight/Darkness Table for One Year. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20191012094319/http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php. 2019-10-12. 2021-03-10. U.S. Naval Observatory.