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Country, territory or sea	Notes
	Paris Paris Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France .... , Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport
	Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 States of Germany of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz.... , Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg Baden-W?rttemberg is one of the 16 States of Germany of the Federal Republic of Germany. Baden-W?rttemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine?but one which has some of its major cities straddling the banks of the Neckar River ....  and Bavaria Bavaria Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
	For about 5 km
	Passes directly through Prešov Prešov Pre?ov is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is the seat of the administrative Pre?ov Region . With a population of approximately 91,000, it is the third-largest city in the country....
Strait of Tartary Strait of Tartary Strait of Tartary is a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin from mainland Asia , connecting the Sea of Okhotsk on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south....
	Island of Sakhalin Sakhalin Sakhalin , also Saghalien, is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45?50' and 54?24' N. It is part of Russia and is its largest island, administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast....
Sea of Okhotsk Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk is a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaido to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north....	Passing between the islands of Kharimkotan Kharimkotan Kharimkotan is a volcano island lying km from Onekotan in the Kuril Islands group. It measures by with an area of .The island was formed by the volcano which shares the same name....  and Ekarma Ekarma Ekarma is a volcano island in northern portion of the Kuril Islands. The island covers an area of 30 km? and measures 5km by 7.5km. The western volcano on the island reaches a peak of 1,170 metres....  in 's Kuril Island Kuril Islands The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, is a volcanic archipelago that stretches approximately 1,300 km northeast from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean....  chain
Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
	Vancouver Island Vancouver Island Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, one of several North American regions named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Ocean coast of North America between 1791 and 1794.... , Thetis Island Thetis Island Thetis Island is an island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the Gulf Islands. The island was named in 1851 after HMS Thetis , a 36-gun Royal Navy frigate commanded by Captain Augustus Leopold Kuper ....  and Galiano Island Galiano Island Galiano Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland British Columbia Coast, Canada. Located on the west side of the Strait of Georgia, it is 27.5 km long, 6 km at its widest point, and 1.6 km across at its narrowest point and is separated from Saltspring Island by Trincomali Channel.... , British Columbia British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
Strait of Georgia Strait of Georgia The Strait of Georgia or the Georgia Strait , is a strait between Vancouver Island and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada....
/ border	British Columbia British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....  / Washington Washington Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....  (Point Roberts)
Semiahmoo Bay Semiahmoo Bay Semiahmoo Bay , which styles itself as Sem?i?ah?moo, is the south-eastern section of Boundary Bay on the Pacific coast of North America. The name "Semiahmoo" is a Coast Salish word for "half moon"....
/ border	British Columbia British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....  / Washington Washington Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute.... > British Columbia British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....  / Idaho Idaho The State of Idaho is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city and Capital is Boise, Idaho.... British Columbia British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....  / Montana Montana Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains.... Alberta Alberta Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....  / Montana Montana Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains.... Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 588,276.09 square kilometres and a population of 1,015,895 , mostly living in the southern half of the province....  / Montana Montana Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains.... Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 588,276.09 square kilometres and a population of 1,015,895 , mostly living in the southern half of the province....  / North Dakota North Dakota North Dakota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States and Western United States regions of the United States of America. North Dakota is the 19th largest state by area in the US; it is the 48th most populous, with just over 640,000 residents as of 2006.... Manitoba Manitoba Manitoba is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 647,797 square kilometres and a population of 1,207,959 , with more than half located within the Winnipeg Capital Region ....  / North Dakota North Dakota North Dakota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States and Western United States regions of the United States of America. North Dakota is the 19th largest state by area in the US; it is the 48th most populous, with just over 640,000 residents as of 2006.... Manitoba Manitoba Manitoba is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 647,797 square kilometres and a population of 1,207,959 , with more than half located within the Winnipeg Capital Region ....  / Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
Lake of the Woods Lake of the Woods Lake of the Woods is a lake occupying parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the U.S. state of Minnesota. It separates a small land area of Minnesota from the rest of the United States....
/ border	Manitoba Manitoba Manitoba is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 647,797 square kilometres and a population of 1,207,959 , with more than half located within the Winnipeg Capital Region ....  / Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....  (Elm Point Elm Point, Minnesota Elm Point, Minnesota, in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, is a small cape and a United States practical exclave, southwest of the Northwest Angle.... )
Lake of the Woods Lake of the Woods Lake of the Woods is a lake occupying parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the U.S. state of Minnesota. It separates a small land area of Minnesota from the rest of the United States....
	Ontario Ontario Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area.... , passing through a small part of Lake Superior Lake Superior Lake Superior is the largest of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded to the north by Ontario, Canada and Minnesota, United States, and to the south by the U.S.... Quebec Quebec Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada.... , passing through the Saint Lawrence River Saint Lawrence River Saint Lawrence River is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean....  and Gaspé Peninsula Gaspé Peninsula The Gasp?sie or also Gasp? Peninsula or the Gasp? is a peninsula constituting part of the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, in Quebec, Canada....
Gulf of Saint Lawrence Gulf of Saint Lawrence Gulf of Saint Lawrence , the world's largest estuary, is the outlet of North America's Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean....
	Island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador is a Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada, on the country's Atlantic Ocean coast in northeastern North America....
Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
English Channel English Channel The English Channel is an Arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover....	Gulf of Saint-Malo

History

Following the Louisiana Purchase

Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of of the French territory Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million French franc plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs , a total cost of $15,000,000 for the Louisiana territory....
 by the United States in 1803, it was generally agreed that the boundary between the new territory and British North America

British North America

British North America consisted of the colonies and territories of the British Empire in continental North America after the end of the American Revolutionary War and the recognition of United States ....
 was along the watershed

Water divide

A drainage divide, water divide, divide or watershed is the line separating neighbouring drainage basins . In hilly country, the divide lies along topography pyramidal peak and ridges, but in flat country the divide may be invisible – just a more or less notional line on the ground on either side of which falling...
 between the Missouri River

Missouri River

The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, and the longest river in the United States of America. The Missouri begins at the confluence of the Madison River, Jefferson River, and Gallatin River rivers in Montana, and flows through Missouri River Valley south and east into the Mississippi north of St....
 and Mississippi River

Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico....
 basins on one side and the Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay is a large , relatively shallow body of water in northeastern Canada. It is approximately 850 miles long and 650 miles wide. It drains a very large area that includes parts of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, most of Manitoba, parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana, and the southeastern area of Nunavut...
 basin on the other. However, it is often difficult to precisely determine the location of a watershed in a region of level plains, such as in central North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
. The British and American committees that met after the War of 1812

War of 1812

The War of 1812, between the United States of America and the British Empire , was fought from 1812 to 1815.There were several immediate stated causes for the U.S....
 to resolve boundary disputes recognized there would be much animosity in surveying the watershed boundary, and agreed on a simpler border solution in 1818: the 49th parallel. Both sides gained and lost some territory by this convention, but the United States gained more than it lost, in particular securing title to the Red River Basin. This convention established the boundary only between the Lake of the Woods

Lake of the Woods

Lake of the Woods is a lake occupying parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the U.S. state of Minnesota. It separates a small land area of Minnesota from the rest of the United States....
 and the Rocky Mountains

Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 4,800 kilometre from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States....
; west of the Rockies, the convention established joint occupation of the Oregon Country

Oregon Country

Oregon Country or Oregon was a predominantly United States term referring to a region of the Pacific Northwest of North America. The region was occupied by British North America and French Canadian fur traders from before 1810, and American settlers from the mid-1830s....
 by both parties. A geographical oversight resulted in the creation of the Northwest Angle

Northwest Angle

File:NORTHWEST Angle.pngThe Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coterminous with Angle Township, is a part of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota that is the only part of the United States outside Alaska that is north of the 49th parallel north....
.

Although the Convention of 1818 settled the boundary from the point of view of the non-Aboriginal powers, neither the United Kingdom nor the United States was immediately sovereign over the territories on its side of the line: effective control still rested with the local nations, mainly the Métis

Métis people (Canada)

The M?tis are descendants of marriages of Cree, Inuit, Ojibway, Algonquin, Saulteaux, Menominee, and other indigenous peoples of the Americas to Europeans and other ethnicities from around the world, and are one of three officially-recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada, the other two being the First Nations and Inuit....
, Assiniboine

Assiniboine

The Assiniboine, also known by the Ojibwe language name Asiniibwaan "Stone Sioux", and the Cree as Asin?pw?t are a Siouan Native Americans in the United States/First Nations people originally from the Northern Great Plains of the United States and Canada, centered in present-day Saskatchewan; they also populated parts of Alberta, so...
, Lakota and Blackfoot

Blackfeet

The Piegan Blackfeet are a tribe of Native Americans in the United States based in Montana. Many members of the tribe currently live as part of the Blackfeet Nation in northwestern Montana, with population centered in Browning, Montana....
. Their sovereignty was gradually ceded by conquest and treaty during the several decades that followed. Among these nations, the 49th parallel was nicknamed the Medicine Line because of its seemingly magical ability to prevent U.S. soldiers from crossing it.

In the 1844 U.S. presidential election, the Democratic Party asserted that the northern border of the Oregon Territory

Oregon Territory

The Oregon Territory is the name applied both to the unorganized Oregon Country claimed by both the United States and United Kingdom , as well as to the Organized incorporated territories of the United States formed from it that existed between 1848 and 1859....
 should be 54°40′, later reflected in the 1846 slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight

Oregon boundary dispute

The Oregon boundary dispute, or the Oregon question, arose as a result of competing United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and United States claims to the Pacific Northwest of North America in the first half of the 19th century....
!" However, the Oregon boundary dispute

Oregon boundary dispute

The Oregon boundary dispute, or the Oregon question, arose as a result of competing United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and United States claims to the Pacific Northwest of North America in the first half of the 19th century....
 was settled diplomatically in the 1846 Oregon Treaty. This agreement divided the Oregon Country between British North America

British North America

British North America consisted of the colonies and territories of the British Empire in continental North America after the end of the American Revolutionary War and the recognition of United States ....
 and the United States by extending the 49th parallel boundary to the west coast, ending in the Strait of Georgia

Strait of Georgia

The Strait of Georgia or the Georgia Strait , is a strait between Vancouver Island and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada....
; it then circumvents Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, one of several North American regions named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Ocean coast of North America between 1791 and 1794....
 through Boundary Pass

Boundary Pass

Boundary Pass is a strait that runs for about along the boundary between the U.S. state of Washington and the Canada of British Columbia. It connects Haro Strait to the south with the Strait of Georgia to the north....
, Haro Strait

Haro Strait

Haro Strait, often referred to as the Haro Straits because it is really a series of straits, is one of the main channels connecting the Strait of Georgia to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, separating Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada from the San Juan Islands of Washington in the United States....
, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Strait of Juan de Fuca

The Strait of Juan de Fuca is a large body of water about long forming the principal outlet for the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound, connecting both to the Pacific Ocean....
. This had the side-effect of isolating Point Roberts, Washington

Point Roberts, Washington

Point Roberts is an unincorporated area in Whatcom County, Washington, Washington, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 98281; the ZIP Code Tabulation Area for ZIP code 98281 had a population of 1,308 at the 2000 United States Census....
.

As border

Although parts of Vancouver Island and parts of Eastern Canada are located south of the 49th parallel, and parts of the United States (Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
, Northwest Angle

Northwest Angle

File:NORTHWEST Angle.pngThe Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coterminous with Angle Township, is a part of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota that is the only part of the United States outside Alaska that is north of the 49th parallel north....
) are located north of it, the term 49th parallel is sometimes used as a nickname for the entire Canada-U.S. border. This can be misleading, since many of Canada's most populated regions (and about 72% of the national population) are located south of the 49th parallel, including the two largest cities Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
 (44° north

44th parallel north

The 44th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 44 degree true north of the Earth equator.Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 44? north passes through:...
) and Montreal

Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
 (46° north

46th parallel north

The 46th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 46 degree true north of the Earth equator.Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 46? north passes through:...
), the federal capital Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the Capital of Canada. The city has population of 812,000, the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population municipality in the country and second largest in Ontario....
 (45.25° north) and the capital cities of all provinces except the Prairie provinces (Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....
, Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 588,276.09 square kilometres and a population of 1,015,895 , mostly living in the southern half of the province....
 and Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 647,797 square kilometres and a population of 1,207,959 , with more than half located within the Winnipeg Capital Region ....
), these being the only three provinces entirely north of the 49th parallel. All of Mainland British Columbia, including Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city in British Columbia and the second largest metropolitan area in the Pacific Northwest region....
, the province's largest city, lies north of the 49th parallel. The three Maritime provinces

Maritimes

The Maritime provinces, also called the Maritimes or the Canadian Maritimes, is a list of regions of Canada#National regions of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces and territories of Canada: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island....
 are each located entirely south of the parallel; however, the vast majority of Canadian territory lies north of the 49th parallel.

Parts of the 49th parallel were originally surveyed using astronomical techniques that did not take into account slight departures of the Earth's shape from a simple ellipsoid

Ellipsoid

An ellipsoid is a type of Quadric that is a higher dimensional analogue of an ellipse. The equation of a standard axis-aligned ellipsoid body in an xyz-Cartesian coordinate system is...
, or the deflection of the plumb bob by differences in terrestrial mass and although the surveys were subject to the limitations of early to mid 19th-century technology, extremely accurate results were obtained. As a result, in some places the surveyed 49th parallel is as much as several hundred feet from the actual geographical 49th parallel for the currently adopted datum, WGS84. The Digital Chart of the World

Digital Chart of the World

The Digital Chart of the World is a comprehensive digital map of Earth. It is the most comprehensive geographical information system global database that is freely available as of 2006, although it has not been updated since 1992....
 (DCW), which uses the Clarke 1866 ellipsoid, reports the border on average at latitude 48° 59′ 51″ north, roughly 270 m (290 yd) south of the modern 49th parallel. It ranges between 48° 59′ 25″ and 49° 0′ 10″ north, respectively 810 m (885 yd) and 590 m (645 yd) on either side of the average. In any case, the Earth's North Pole moves around slightly, notionally moving the 49th and other parallels with it - see polar motion

Polar motion

Polar motion is the movement of Earth's Earth's rotation axis across its surface. This is measured with respect to a reference frame in which the solid Earth is fixed ....
.

While the United States and Canada have not disputed the boundary from the original survey lines, the difference of the survey from the geographical 49th parallel was argued in front of the Washington Supreme Court

Washington Supreme Court

The Washington Supreme Court is the highest court in the judiciary of the U.S. state of Washington. The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and eight Justices....
 in the case of State of Washington v. Norman, under the premise that Washington did not properly incorporate the portions of land north of the geographical 49th parallel, as laid out by detailed GPS

Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System is a global navigation satellite system developed by the United States Department of Defense and managed by the United States Air Force 50th Space Wing....
 surveying. The court decided against the premise, ruling that the internationally surveyed boundary also served as the state boundary, regardless of its actual position.

Monuments on the border

*The Peace Arch

Peace Arch

The Peace Arch is a monument situated on the Canada ? United States border between the communities of Blaine, Washington, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia, British Columbia....
 is a large monument between Surrey

Surrey, British Columbia

Surrey is a Canada city in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that lies within the Metro Vancouver district, and geographically at the centre of the larger region known as the Lower Mainland of BC....
, British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
, and Blaine

Blaine, Washington

Blaine is a city in Whatcom County, Washington, Washington, United States. The city's northern boundary is the Canadian border. Blaine is the shared home of the Peace Arch international monument....
, Washington

Washington

Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
. It is the centerpiece of Peace Arch Park

Peace Arch Park

Peace Arch Park is a park straddling the United States-Canadian Border at the extreme western end of the main contiguous section of the two countries' land border, where it reaches Semiahmoo Bay of Puget Sound on the continent's Pacific Coast....
.

• The International Peace Garden
  International Peace Garden
  
  The International Peace Garden is a 3.65 sq. mi. park located on the border between Canada and the United States, in the state of North Dakota and the province of Manitoba....
   is located at the border between Manitoba
  Manitoba
  
  Manitoba is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 647,797 square kilometres and a population of 1,207,959 , with more than half located within the Winnipeg Capital Region ....
   and North Dakota
  North Dakota
  
  North Dakota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States and Western United States regions of the United States of America. North Dakota is the 19th largest state by area in the US; it is the 48th most populous, with just over 640,000 residents as of 2006....
  , about midway between the nearby communities of Boissevain, Manitoba
  Boissevain, Manitoba
  
  Boissevain is a town in Manitoba near the North Dakota border. It is notable for its proximity to the International Peace Garden, a short drive south on Manitoba Highway 10....
   and Dunseith, North Dakota
  Dunseith, North Dakota
  
  Dunseith is a city in Rolette County, North Dakota, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 739 at the 2000 United States Census. Dunseith was founded in 1884....
  . It has as its focal point the Peace Tower
  International Peace Garden
  
  The International Peace Garden is a 3.65 sq. mi. park located on the border between Canada and the United States, in the state of North Dakota and the province of Manitoba....
   (actually four identical monuments 120 feet (36.6 m) tall set parallel only a few feet apart, two on each side of the border, giving the appearance of a double tower from most vantage points in the Garden).
• Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
  Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
  
  The Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park is the name of the union of the Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada and the Glacier National Park in the United States....
   in Alberta and Montana

See also

External Links

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See also

• 48th parallel north
  48th parallel north
  
  The 48th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 48 degree true north of the Earth equator....
  
• 50th parallel north
  50th parallel north
  
  The 50th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 50 degree true north of the Earth equator.Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 50? north passes through:...