16th meridian east

The meridian 16° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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16th meridian east
Monument marking the meridian in Zagreb, Croatia

The 16th meridian east forms a great circle with the 164th meridian west.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 16th meridian east passes through:

Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes
90°0′N 16°0′E Arctic Ocean
80°1′N 16°0′E  Norway Island of Spitsbergen, Svalbard
76°45′N 16°0′E Atlantic Ocean Greenland Sea
Norwegian Sea
69°18′N 16°0′E  Norway Islands of Andøy and Hinnøya, and the mainland
66°52′N 16°0′E  Sweden
56°12′N 16°0′E Baltic Sea
54°15′N 16°0′E  Poland
50°36′N 16°0′E  Czech Republic
48°47′N 16°0′E  Austria
46°50′N 16°0′E  Slovenia For about 11 km
46°43′N 16°0′E  Austria For about 6 km
46°40′N 16°0′E  Slovenia
46°18′N 16°0′E  Croatia Passing through Zagreb, east of the city centre
45°13′N 16°0′E  Bosnia and Herzegovina
44°38′N 16°0′E  Croatia
43°29′N 16°0′E Mediterranean Sea Adriatic Sea
42°59′N 16°0′E  Croatia Island of Biševo
42°57′N 16°0′E Mediterranean Sea Adriatic Sea
41°57′N 16°0′E  Italy
41°40′N 16°0′E Mediterranean Sea Gulf of Manfredonia
41°26′N 16°0′E  Italy
39°25′N 16°0′E Mediterranean Sea Tyrrhenian Sea
38°44′N 16°0′E  Italy
37°55′N 16°0′E Mediterranean Sea
31°17′N 16°0′E  Libya
23°27′N 16°0′E  Chad The meridian enters Chad at the country's northernmost point, on the Tropic of Cancer
7°30′N 16°0′E  Central African Republic
3°0′N 16°0′E  Cameroon
1°45′N 16°0′E  Republic of the Congo
3°44′S 16°0′E  Democratic Republic of the Congo
5°52′S 16°0′E  Angola
17°23′S 16°0′E  Namibia
28°15′S 16°0′E Atlantic Ocean
60°0′S 16°0′E Southern Ocean
69°41′S 16°0′E Antarctica Queen Maud Land, claimed by  Norway

See also

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