Tropical circle

A circle of latitude or line of latitude on Earth is an abstract east–west small circle connecting all locations around Earth at a given latitude coordinate line.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Sign
  • Description: circle of latitude
  • Also known as: “tropic” and “tropic (parallels of latitude)”

Tropical circle

Latitude
-23.50023° or 23° 30′ 1″ south
Longitude
15.77214° or 15° 46′ 20″ east
Open location code
5F8QFQXC+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 974106491
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­information
Wiki­data ID
Q149273
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Satellite Map

Discover Tropical circle from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Tropical circle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مدار”
  • Asturian: “Trópicu”
  • Catalan: “tròpic”
  • Catalan: “Tròpic”
  • Catalan: “tropicals”
  • Catalan: “tròpics”
  • Chinese: “回归线”
  • Chinese: “回歸線”
  • Czech: “obratník”
  • Czech: “Obratník”
  • Danish: “Vendekreds”
  • Dutch: “keerkring”
  • Dutch: “Keerkring”
  • Estonian: “pöörijoon”
  • Estonian: “Pöörijoon”
  • Finnish: “kääntöpiiri”
  • Finnish: “Kääntöpiiri”
  • Galician: “trópico”
  • German: “Wendekreis”
  • German: “Wendekreise”
  • Greek: “Τροπικός κύκλος”
  • Inari Sami: “jorgáldâskiärdu”
  • Indonesian: “tropik”
  • Italian: “intertropicale”
  • Italian: “regioni tropicali”
  • Italian: “tropicale”
  • Italian: “tropicali”
  • Italian: “tropici”
  • Italian: “tropico”
  • Italian: “Tropico”
  • Japanese: “回帰線”
  • Japanese: “至線”
  • Korean: “회귀선”
  • Latin: “Circulus Solis vertentis”
  • Latin: “Circulus tropicus”
  • Lithuanian: “Atogrąža”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Wobrotna šyrina”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wendekrees”
  • Macedonian: “повратник”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kiarkreis”
  • Northern Sami: “jorggihanbirradat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den nordlige vendekrets”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den sørlige vendekrets”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den sydlige vendekrets”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Krepsens vendesirkel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nordlige vendekrets”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sørlige vendekrets”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Steinbukkens vendekrets”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Steinbukkens vendesirkel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stenbukkens vendesirkel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sydlige vendekrets”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tropic of Cancer”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tropic of Capricorn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “vendekretsene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vendesirkel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vendesirkelen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “vendekrins”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vendekrins”
  • Norwegian: “Vendekretsene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tròpic”
  • Polish: “zwrotnik”
  • Polish: “Zwrotnik”
  • Russian: “тропик”
  • Slovenian: “povratnik”
  • Spanish: “Tropicales”
  • Spanish: “Tropico”
  • Spanish: “Trópico”
  • Spanish: “Tropicos”
  • Swedish: “vändkrets”
  • Swedish: “Vändkrets”
  • Upper Sorbian: “wobrotnik”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wobrotnik”
  • Uzbek: “Tropiklar”
  • Western Frisian: “Kearkring”

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