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2 unusual facts about 38th parallel


38th parallel

38th parallel north, a circle of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere, used as the pre-Korean War boundary between North Korea and South Korea

38th parallel structures, a series of circular depressions roughly on the 38th parallel north


State cessions

#Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Its original land grant from the British Monarch to William Penn was for the land between the 42nd parallel and the 38th parallel in latitude, and extending westward five degrees in longitude.


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38th parallel north

After the surrender of Japan in August 1945, the 38th parallel was established as the boundary by Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel of the U.S. State Department - War - Navy Coordinating Committee in Washington, D.C. during the night of the 10th of August 1945, four days before the liberation of Korea.

Parallel structures

38th parallel structures, a series of carboniferous craters of the United States, approximately lying on the 38th parallel north