Europe - North America Lattitudes Compared

Major European cities overlaid on North America, corrected for the identical latitude (click to view full sized):

 
North American cities, overlaid on Western Europe and Northern Africa at the identical latitude:

 
Much of Western Europe is farther north than the US-Canadian border.

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