5th parallel south

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5th parallel south

The 5th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 5 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, Australasia, the Pacific Ocean and South America.

Around the world

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 5° south passes through:

Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Republic of the Congo For about 7 km
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Angola Cabinda exclave
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Lake Tanganyika
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Tanzania
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Indian Ocean Pemba Channel
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Tanzania Island of Pemba
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Indian Ocean Passing through the Amirante Islands,  Seychelles
Passing just south of Mahé island,  Seychelles
Passing just north of Peros Banhos atoll,  British Indian Ocean Territory
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Indonesia Island of Sumatra
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Java Sea Passing close by several small islands of  Indonesia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Indonesia Island of Sulawesi
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Banda Sea Gulf of Boni - passing just north of the island of Kabaena,  Indonesia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Indonesia Islands of Muna and Buton
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Banda Sea Passing close by several small islands of  Indonesia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Indonesia Island of New Guinea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Papua New Guinea Island of New Guinea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pacific Ocean Bismarck Sea, passing close by several small islands of  Papua New Guinea
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Papua New Guinea Island of New Britain
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Pacific Ocean Solomon Sea
- Passing just south of the island of New Ireland,  Papua New Guinea
- Passing just north of Buka Island,  Papua New Guinea
An unnamed part of the ocean
- Passing just north of Ontong Java Atoll,  Solomon Islands
- Passing just south of Nikumaroro atoll,  Kiribati
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Peru Piura
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Ecuador For about 4 km at the southernmost point of the country
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Peru Cajamarca
Amazonas
Loreto
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.  Brazil Amazonas
Pará
Maranhão
Piauí
Ceará
Rio Grande do Norte
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Atlantic Ocean

See also