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  • Portland, Oregon, where it rarely snows, is about 130 miles further north than Toronto, and over 200 miles further north than Boston.
  • On France’s southern Mediterranean coast, Cannes, the sunny summer playground of the rich, which is sometimes incorrectly called ‘tropical’, is about 10 miles further north than Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • Sydney, Australia
    Sydney, Australia
    Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Cape Town, and Sydney are each thousands of miles apart and are known for having unusually pleasant year-round climates, and they are all almost identical distances from the Equator.
  • The 49th Parallel, which makes up the long and straight US/Canada border in the west, is about 120 miles north of Estcourt Station, Maine.
  • The entire country of England, with over 50 million residents, is a wee bit smaller than the state of Louisiana.
  • France is about 30% larger than the state of California.
  • About two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere.