Talk:49th parallel north

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An image of the border would be nice here... ~ A. Mous Or and Object


 * The border on the 49th parallel looks pretty close to
 * --Prosfilaes (talk) 23:48, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * --Prosfilaes (talk) 23:48, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

60N
I added the link to the 60th parallel because both '49th parallel' and '60th parallel' are common geographical references in Canada, the former to the US border with the prairie provinces and the latter to the border between the prairie provinces and the territories. - Montréalais (talk) 20:04, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

North American bias
Although this article is about the "circle of latitude in the northern hemisphere", it gives undue weight to the Canadian/US border, even though that has its own article. I have restructured this article to reduce this; no content has been removed. Personally, I think the Canadian/US border section in this article should be a short description only, with the rest of the content merged into Canada – United States border. I may do that later unless someone gets there first or there is strong disagreement. Bazza (talk) 14:03, 15 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree, that section is still inappropriately big. —Tamfang (talk) 09:00, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Bear in mind that the 49th parallel is only part of the US/Canada border, and that the US/Canada border is only part of the 49th parallel. You certainly can't remove all of the border information from here as it is clearly of relevance to the subject matter. Bazonka (talk) 12:26, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

on the tangent?

 * As per treaty, lines between original established monuments (1861) are straight lines on the chord, rather than curved lines on the tangent, which generally keeps the boundary some distance from 49 degrees north.

What would "curved lines on the tangent" mean? Curved how, tangent to what? —Tamfang (talk) 00:20, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Around the World revision
Notwithstanding the Oregon Treaty, the actual US/Canada border deviates significantly from the 49th parallel, and hence the Around the World summary needs to be revised, as it currently indicates that the 49th parallel runs solidly along the border from Washington to Minnesota.

I'll leave this here for comment for a little while, and if there are no objections, I'll make the corrections.

Ordinary Person (talk) 04:31, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The border and parallel may not exactly be aligned, so I wouldn't object to some clarity being introduced. However, they aren't far apart, so perhaps this can be done by simply writing "(approximately)" after the province/state names. Bazonka (talk) 07:31, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Something like that would be fine, but the recent edit that introduced a confusing series of back-and-forth does not add clarity but rather confusion to the issue. Per WP:BRD, the status quo ante should be restored until and unless there is a consensus otherwise. YBG (talk) 00:50, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

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Wrong projection
Shouldn't line on map "European countries entirely north of 49° N" be curved? It's not Mercator projection you can see that it takes earth curvature into account especially if you look at Turkey, Ukraine and Russia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.11.130.79 (talk) 17:38, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Vancouver’s not on the 49th Parallel
Vancouver BC is the first on the list of cities that lie on 49°N, but that's not really correct. Vancouver's at least 20 km to the north, with other major conurbations (including Richmond BC) between it and the 49th parallel. 1972 (talk) 14:02, 28 February 2024 (UTC)


 * No, and neither were any of the other cities in that section on the parallel. I've removed it all. Bazonka (talk) 19:23, 1 March 2024 (UTC)