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The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. The 38th parallel north formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War.
The 38th parallel structures, also known as the 38th parallel lineament, [1] are a series of seven circular depressions or deformations stretching 700 kilometres (430 mi) across southern Illinois and Missouri and into eastern Kansas, in the United States, at a latitude of roughly 38 degrees north.
The 38th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean , the Indian Ocean , Australia , New Zealand , the Pacific Ocean , and South America , including the Andes Mountains and Patagonia .
38th parallel south, a circle of latitude in the Southern Hemisphere; 38th parallel structures, a series of circular depressions roughly on the 38th parallel north; 38th Parallel (band), a short-lived Christian rap-rock band that formed in 2000 "The 38th Parallel", a song by Phinehas from the 2017 album Dark Flag
90th parallel south, the South Pole This page was last edited on 13 December 2024, at 17:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Mercator projection of a world map. The angles are untrue for area, especially at high latitudes. Also note increasing distances between the latitudes towards the poles and the parallel lines of longitude. The only true world map is the globe. The Mercator projection comes from a globe inside a cylinder.
The Korean Demilitarized Zone intersects but does not follow the 38th parallel north, which was the border before the Korean War. It crosses the parallel on an angle, with the west end of the DMZ lying south of the parallel and the east end lying north of it. The DMZ is 250 km (160 mi) long, [1] approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) wide.
Working on extremely short notice and completely unprepared, they used a National Geographic map to decide on the 38th parallel as the dividing line. They chose it because it divided the country approximately in half but would place the capital Seoul under American control. No experts on Korea were consulted.