title: 41st parallel north
text: # 41st parallel north
  
  The 41st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 41 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
  
  At this latitude the sun is visible for 15 hours, 8 minutes during the summer solstice and 9 hours, 13 minutes during the winter solstice.
  
  ## Around the world
  
  Starting at the prime meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 41° north passes through:
  
      Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes 41°0′N 0°0′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 0.000°E﻿ / 41.000; 0.000﻿ (Prime Meridian)  Spain 41°0′N 0°56′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 0.933°E﻿ / 41.000; 0.933﻿ (Mediterranean Sea) Mediterranean Sea 41°0′N 8°13′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 8.217°E﻿ / 41.000; 8.217﻿ (Italy)  Italy Island of Asinara 41°0′N 8°16′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 8.267°E﻿ / 41.000; 8.267﻿ (Mediterranean Sea) Mediterranean Sea Gulf of Asinara 41°0′N 8°52′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 8.867°E﻿ / 41.000; 8.867﻿ (Italy)  Italy Island of Sardinia 41°0′N 9°39′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 9.650°E﻿ / 41.000; 9.650﻿ (Mediterranean Sea) Mediterranean Sea Tyrrhenian Sea - passing just north of the Pontine Islands, Italy 41°0′N 13°57′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 13.950°E﻿ / 41.000; 13.950﻿ (Italy)  Italy 41°0′N 17°12′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 17.200°E﻿ / 41.000; 17.200﻿ (Adriatic Sea) Adriatic Sea 41°0′N 19°28′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 19.467°E﻿ / 41.000; 19.467﻿ (Albania)  Albania The border with North Macedonia is in Lake Ohrid 41°0′N 20°42′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 20.700°E﻿ / 41.000; 20.700﻿ (North Macedonia)  North Macedonia 41°0′N 21°51′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 21.850°E﻿ / 41.000; 21.850﻿ (Greece)  Greece 41°0′N 26°20′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 26.333°E﻿ / 41.000; 26.333﻿ (Turkey)  Turkey Passing through the Sea of Marmara, and through Istanbul 41°0′N 37°52′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 37.867°E﻿ / 41.000; 37.867﻿ (Black Sea) Black Sea 41°0′N 38°47′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 38.783°E﻿ / 41.000; 38.783﻿ (Turkey)  Turkey 41°0′N 39°46′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 39.767°E﻿ / 41.000; 39.767﻿ (Black Sea) Black Sea 41°0′N 40°20′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 40.333°E﻿ / 41.000; 40.333﻿ (Turkey)  Turkey 41°0′N 43°32′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 43.533°E﻿ / 41.000; 43.533﻿ (Armenia)  Armenia 41°0′N 45°10′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 45.167°E﻿ / 41.000; 45.167﻿ (Azerbaijan)  Azerbaijan Barkhudali exclave 41°0′N 45°13′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 45.217°E﻿ / 41.000; 45.217﻿ (Armenia)  Armenia Passing 12 km (7 mi) south of Yerevan 41°0′N 45°24′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 45.400°E﻿ / 41.000; 45.400﻿ (Azerbaijan)  Azerbaijan 41°0′N 49°13′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 49.217°E﻿ / 41.000; 49.217﻿ (Caspian Sea) Caspian Sea 41°0′N 52°57′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 52.950°E﻿ / 41.000; 52.950﻿ (Turkmenistan)  Turkmenistan Passing through Turkmenbashi 41°0′N 61°58′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 61.967°E﻿ / 41.000; 61.967﻿ (Uzbekistan)  Uzbekistan 41°0′N 68°4′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 68.067°E﻿ / 41.000; 68.067﻿ (Kazakhstan)  Kazakhstan 41°0′N 68°31′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 68.517°E﻿ / 41.000; 68.517﻿ (Uzbekistan)  Uzbekistan For about 7 km (4 mi) 41°0′N 68°36′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 68.600°E﻿ / 41.000; 68.600﻿ (Kazakhstan)  Kazakhstan For about 12 km (7 mi) 41°0′N 68°45′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 68.750°E﻿ / 41.000; 68.750﻿ (Uzbekistan)  Uzbekistan 41°0′N 70°24′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 70.400°E﻿ / 41.000; 70.400﻿ (Tajikistan)  Tajikistan For about 10 km (6 mi) 41°0′N 70°31′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 70.517°E﻿ / 41.000; 70.517﻿ (Uzbekistan)  Uzbekistan 41°0′N 72°30′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 72.500°E﻿ / 41.000; 72.500﻿ (Kyrgyzstan)  Kyrgyzstan 41°0′N 76°50′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 76.833°E﻿ / 41.000; 76.833﻿ (China)  People's Republic of China Xinjiang 41°0′N 77°30′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 77.500°E﻿ / 41.000; 77.500﻿ (Kyrgyzstan)  Kyrgyzstan For about 7 km (4 mi) 41°0′N 77°35′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 77.583°E﻿ / 41.000; 77.583﻿ (China)  People's Republic of China Xinjiang Gansu Inner Mongolia — passing about 20 km (12 mi) north of Hohhot Hebei Beijing - for about 7 km (4 mi) Hebei Liaoning Jilin 41°0′N 126°5′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 126.083°E﻿ / 41.000; 126.083﻿ (North Korea)  North Korea Jagang Province Yanggang Province Passing Through Kaema Plateau South Hamgyeong Province - Heocheon, Dancheon North Hamgyeong Province 41°0′N 129°43′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 129.717°E﻿ / 41.000; 129.717﻿ (Sea of Japan) Sea of Japan 41°0′N 140°19′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 140.317°E﻿ / 41.000; 140.317﻿ (Japan)  Japan Aomori Prefecture - Tsugaru Peninsula 41°0′N 140°45′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 140.750°E﻿ / 41.000; 140.750﻿ (Aomori Bay) Aomori Bay 41°0′N 140°54′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 140.900°E﻿ / 41.000; 140.900﻿ (Japan)  Japan Natsudomari Peninsula - Aomori Prefecture 41°0′N 141°06′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 141.100°E﻿ / 41.000; 141.100﻿ (Mutsu Bay) Mutsu Bay 41°0′N 141°19′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 141.317°E﻿ / 41.000; 141.317﻿ (Japan)  Japan Shimokita Peninsula - Aomori Prefecture 41°0′N 141°23′E﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 141.383°E﻿ / 41.000; 141.383﻿ (Pacific Ocean) Pacific Ocean 41°0′N 124°7′W﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 124.117°W﻿ / 41.000; -124.117﻿ (United States)  United States California Nevada - passing just north of Winnemucca Utah Wyoming / Utah border Wyoming / Colorado border Nebraska / Colorado border Nebraska Iowa Illinois Indiana Ohio - southern boundary of Connecticut Western Reserve Pennsylvania New Jersey New York Connecticut 41°0′N 73°39′W﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 73.650°W﻿ / 41.000; -73.650﻿ (Long Island Sound) Long Island Sound 41°0′N 72°35′W﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 72.583°W﻿ / 41.000; -72.583﻿ (United States)  United States New York - Long Island 41°0′N 72°0′W﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 72.000°W﻿ / 41.000; -72.000﻿ (Atlantic Ocean) Atlantic Ocean 41°0′N 8°39′W﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 8.650°W﻿ / 41.000; -8.650﻿ (Portugal)  Portugal Passing about 20 km (12 mi) south of Porto 41°0′N 6°54′W﻿ / ﻿41.000°N 6.900°W﻿ / 41.000; -6.900﻿ (Spain)  Spain Passing just north of Salamanca
  
  ## United States
  
  In the United States, the parallel defines the southernmost border of Wyoming (bordering Utah and Colorado), and part of the border between Nebraska and Colorado.
  
  In 1606, King James I of England created the Colony of Virginia. In the First Virginia Charter, he gave the London Company the right to "begin their Plantation and Habitation in some fit and convenient place between four and thirty and one and forty degrees of the said latitude all alongst the coast of Virginia and coasts of America." The Jamestown Settlement was established roughly at the midpoint of that territory. The later Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony) settlers were originally bound for the northern portion of the Virginia territory. Instead, they landed north of the 41st parallel on Cape Cod, where they had exclusive rights to the land under the charter for the Plymouth Colony.
  
  As originally set by King Charles II of England in 1664, the point at which the 41st parallel crosses the Hudson River marks the northeastern border between New Jersey and New York. This border then proceeds northwest to the Tri-States Monument at the confluence of the Delaware and Neversink rivers.
  
  The 41st parallel was also one of the principal baselines used for surveying a portion of lands in Ohio. This marked the southern boundary of the Connecticut Western Reserve and the Firelands using the western boundary with Pennsylvania as the principal meridian. It also served as the baseline for a later survey of Ohio land north of the Greenville Treaty line up to the Fulton line which was the original boundary between Michigan and Ohio under the Northwest Ordinance (see the Toledo Strip). The later survey used the boundary with Indiana as the meridian.
  
  