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Located north of the Arctic Circle, [7] it is one of the northernmost cities and towns in the world and the northernmost in the United States, with nearby Point Barrow as the country's northernmost point. Utqiagvik's population was 4,927 at the 2020 census, an increase from 4,212 in 2010. [8] It is the 12th-most populated city in Alaska.
The most northern settlements on Earth are communities close to the North Pole, ranging from about 70° N to about 89° N.The North Pole itself is at 90° N. There are no permanent civilian settlements north of 79° N, the furthest north (78.55° N) being Ny-Ålesund, a permanent settlement of about 30 (in the winter) to 130 (in the summer) people on the Norwegian island of Svalbard.
Before the adoption of four standard time zones for the continental United States, many towns and cities set their clocks to noon when the sun passed their local meridian, pre-corrected for the equation of time on the date of observation, to form local mean solar time. Noon occurred at different times but time differences between distant ...
Map of U.S. time zones with new CST and EST areas displayed. Some U.S. time zones, such as the Samoa Time Zone, are not on this map. This is a list of the time offsets by U.S. states, federal district, and territories. For more about the time zones of the U.S. see time in the United States. Most states are entirely contained within one time zone.
Northern Mariana Islands (United States) Farallon de Pajaros: 20°32′N Thailand: Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai Province: 20°27′N Haiti: Pointe Tete de Chien: 20°04′N Dominican Republic: Cabo Isabela: 19°55′N Yemen: Border with Saudi Arabia: 18°59′N Jamaica: Half Moon Point: 18°31′N Puerto Rico (United States) Puerto Nuevo, Vega Baja
Point Barrow or Nuvuk is a headland on the Arctic coast in the U.S. state of Alaska, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow). It is the northernmost point of all the territory of the United States, at , 1,122 nautical miles (1,291 mi; 2,078 km) south of the North
The city is located six miles from the Canada–US border and is the northernmost city on U.S. Route 85 before it crosses into Canada at Port of Oungre, Saskatchewan. Fortuna has the latest sunset time several days after the summer solstice in the contiguous 48 states. The sun set at 10:05:06 PM Central Daylight Time (CDT) on June 24, 2024. [5]
Estcourt Station (elevation: 671 ft (205 m), pop. 4) is a village within the Big Twenty Township in the state of Maine.It is the northernmost point in the United States east of the Great Lakes.