Passing through Pohang |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Sea of Japan | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Island of Chiburi-shima: — Shimane Prefecture |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Sea of Japan | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Island of Honshū: — Fukui Prefecture— Gifu Prefecture— Nagano Prefecture— Gunma Prefecture − for about — Saitama Prefecture— Chiba Prefecture − for about — Ibaraki Prefecture |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | California Nevada Arizona New Mexico Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Missouri / Arkansas border (approximate) Tennessee North Carolina (Madison County, for about ) Tennessee (Unicoi County, for about ) North Carolina |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Atlantic Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |-valign="top" | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Strait of Gibraltar | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing south of Punta de Tarifa, - the most southerly point of the European mainland |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Mediterranean Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |} United States In the United States, the 36th parallel north is occasionally used as a rough northern boundary for the Sun Belt, a region spanning most Southern and Southwestern states and comprising most of the nation's warmest climates. Cities and landmarks close to the parallel include the following: Kettleman City, California; Henderson, Nevada; Hoover Dam; South Rim of the Grand Canyon; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Tulsa, Oklahoma (passing through the southern portion of the city); Nashville, Tennessee (passing through the southern portion of the city); Knoxville, Tennessee; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; High Point, North Carolina; Greensboro, North Carolina; Durham, North Carolina; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and others. The parallel helped define the North Carolina–Tennessee–Virginia Corners. The sixth standard parallel south of Mount Diablo Range at 35°48′ north, 13.8344 miles south of the 36th parallel, forms a continuous boundary between the California counties of Monterey, Kings, Tulare, and Inyo on the north and the counties of San Luis Obispo, Kern, and San Bernardino on the south. It is sometimes taken as the boundary between Central California and Southern California. The parallel 36° north approximately forms the southernmost boundary of the Missouri Bootheel with the State of Arkansas. The 36th parallel passes through Duke University in several places. Its Campus Drive that connects the campuses crosses the parallel several times. The Duke Gardens has