Important line and boundaries

• Durand Line

  Durand Line is the line drmarcating the boundaries of India and Afghanistan. It was drawn up in 1896 by Sir Mortimer Durand.

• Hindenburg Line

  Hindenburg Line is the boundary dividing Germany and Poland. The Germans retreated to this line in 1917 during World War I

• Mason-Dixon Line

  Mason-Dixon Line is a line of demarcation between four states in the United State.

• Marginal Line

  Marginal Line was the 320 km line of fortification on the Russia-Finland border. Drawn up by General Mannerheim.

• Macmahon Line

  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

  Medicine Line is the border between Canada and the United States.

• Radcliffe Line

  Radcliffe Line was drawn up by Sir Cyril Radcliffe, demarcating the boudary between India and Pakistan. Siegfried Line is the line of fortification drawn up by Germany on its border with France.

• 17th Parallel

  17th Parallel defined the boundary between North Vietnam and South Vietnam before two were united.

• 24th Parallel

  24th Parallel is the line which Pakistan claims for demarcation between India and Pakistan. This, however, is not recognized by India

• 26th Parallel

  26th Parallel south is a circle of latitude which crosses through Africa, Australia and South America.

• 30th Parallel

  30th Parallel north is a line of latitude that stands one-third of the way between the equator and the North Pole.

• 33rd Parallel

  33rd Parallel north is a circle of latitude which cuts through the southern United States, parts of North Africa, parts of the Middle East, and China.

• 35th Parallel

  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 Albama, and the State of Mississippi.

• 36th Parallel

  36th Parallel forms the southermost boundary of the State of Missouri with the State of Arkansas.

• 36°30' Parallel

  36o30' Parallel north forms the boundary between the Tenessee and the Commonwealth of Kentucky between the Tennessee River and the Mississippi River, the boundary between Missouri and Arkansas west of the White River, and the northermost boundary between the Texas and the Oklahoma.

• 37th Parallel

  37th Parallel north formed the southern boundary of the historic and extralegal Territory of Jefferson.

• 38th Parallel

  38th Parallel is the parallel of latitude which separates North Korea and South Korea.

• 39th Parallel

  39th Parallel north is an imaginary circle of latitude that is 39 degrees north of Earth's equatorial plane.

• 40th Parallel

  40th Parallel north formed the original northern boundary of the British Colony of Maryland.

• 41st Parallel

  41st 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

  42nd Parallel north forms most of the New York - Pennsylvania Border.

• 44th parallel

  The Parallel 44° north is an imaginary circle of latitude that is 44 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

• 45th Parallel

  45th Parallel north is often the halfway point between the Equator and the North Pole. The 45th parallel makes up most of the boundary between Montana and Wyoming.

• 49th Parallel

  49th Parallel is the boundary between USA and Canada.

• Mannerheim Line

  It is the line of fortification on the Russia – Finland border.

• Siegfried Line

  The Line of fortification drawn up by Germany on its border with France.

• Neisse Line

  It is the border between Poland and Germany running along the Oder and Neisse rivers, adopted at the Poland Conference after the World War 2