Important Lines and Boundaries
Durand Line is the line demarcating the boundaries of
India and Afghanistan. It was drawn up in 1896 by Sir Mortimer Durand.
Hindenburg Line is the boundary dividing Germany and Poland. The Germans
retreated to this line in 1917 during World War I.
Mason-dixon Line is a line of demarcation between four states in the
United States.
Marginal Line was the 320 km line of fortification built by France along
its border with Germany before World War II, to protect its boundary from German
attack.
Mannerheim Line is the line of fortification on the Russia-Finland
border. Drawn up by General Mannerheim.
Macmahon Line was drawn up by Sir. Henry MacMahon, demarcating the
frontier of India and China. China did not recognize the MacMahon line and
crossed it in 1962.
Medicine Line is the border between Canada and the United States.
Order-neisse Line is the border between Poland and Germany, running along
the Order and Beisse rivers, adopted at the poland Conference (August 1945)
after
World War II.
Radcliffe Line was drawn up by Sir Cyril Radcliffe,
demarcating the boundary between India and Pakistan.
Siegfried Line is the line of fortification drawn up by Germany on its
border with France.
17th Parallel defined the boundary between North Vietnam and South
Vietnam before the two were united.
24th Parallel is the line which Pakistan claims for demarcation between
India and Pakistan. This, however, is not recognized by India.
26th Parallel south is a circle of latitude which croses through Africa,
Australia and South America.
30TH PARALLEL north is a line of latitude that stands one-third of the
way between the equator and the North Pole.
33rd Parallel north is a circle of latitude which cuts through the
southeren United States, parts of North Africa, parts of the Middle East, and
China.
35th Parallel north forms the boundary between the State of North
Carolina and the State of Georgia and the boundary between the State of
Tennessee arid the State of Georgia the State of Alabama, and the State of
Mississippi.
36030’ Parallel north forms the boundary between the Tennessee and
Commonwealth of Kentucky between the Tennessee River and the Mississippi River,
the boundary between Missiouri and Arkansas west of the White River, and the
northernmost boundary between the Texas and the Oklahoma.
37th Parallel north formed the southern boundary of the historic and
extralegal Territory of Jefferson.
38th Parallel is the parallel of latitude which separates North Korea and
South Korea.
39th Parallel north is an imaginary circle of latitude that is 39 degrees
north of the Earth’s equatorial plane.
40th Parallel north formed the original northern boundary of the British
Colony of Maryland.
41th Parallel north forms the northern boundary of the State of Colorado
with Nebraska and Wyoming and the southern boundary of the State of Wyoming with
Colorado and Utah.
42nd Parallel north forms most of the New York - Pennsylania Border.
43rd Parallel north forms most of the boundary between the State of
Nebraska and the State of South Dakota and also formed the northern border of
the historic and extralegal Territory of Jefferson.
The Parallel 440 north is an imaginary circle of latitude that is 44
degrees north of the Earth’s equatorial plane.
45th Parallel north is often called the halfway point between the Equator
and the North Pole. The 45th parallel makes up most of the boundary between
Montana and Wyoming. 45th parallel of south latitude is the east-west line that
marks the theoretical halfway point between the equator and the South Pole.
49th Parallel is the boundary between USA and Canada.
