Fun with world maps. What cities share your latitude?

[Xipe Totec]

An interesting and sobering exercise.

Due west of Boston, which is considered very far north in North America, lies Bilbao on the Northern coast of Spain, and Monaco, a warm Mediterranean port on the south coast of France.

What interesting cities lie at the same latitude as your home?

[Odin2005]

1. For Fargo, ND:

Quebec City, Canada
Bern, Switzerland
Budapest, Hungary
Chisinau, Moldova
Donelsk, Ukraine
Rostov, Russia
Alyrau, Kazakhstan
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

[cemaphonic]

4. Add Seattle

Actually a little farther north than Fargo, but close.

[donheld]

2. Denver

Ankara, Turkey
Beijing, China

[pokerfan]

3. Munich, Zürich, Budapest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_latitude

[kentauros]

5. Starting at Houston:

Projection in WGS84
Lat/Long
29° 45' 46" N, 95° 22' 59" W
Decimal Degrees
29.762778, -95.383056

Projection in UTM
Zone
15R
Easting/Northing
269581 3294879

Cities

Cairo
Al Jizah (under Cairo)

Shiraz, Iran

Lhasa, Tibet

And one city halfway through China that I can't read (resolution a bit too low for the typeface...)

Coordinate info from http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Houston¶ms=29_45_46_N_95_22_59_W_type:city_region:US-TX

[Bucky]

6. Chongqing, China

In the Pinyin alphabet the Q makes a "ch" sound. It's what used to be called Chungking. It's China's largest non-coastal cities.

[kentauros]

7. Okay, that makes more sense now.

Thanks! :D

[Xipe Totec]

8. Most of Europe is at the same latitudes as Canada!