33 Mysteries Facts
Thirty-three is a number with special significance. On this page, you will find some information that is tied together with,
or that bears some relationship to, the number "33."
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SOME INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY: The area where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers come closest together -- allegedly the place of the earliest human "civilization" -- lies virtually at the 33°30'N latitude, in what is now modern Iraq. The ancient pre-India city, Harappa, once lay along this latitude, as well as did Babylon.
Baghdad, Iraq is at 33°33'N latitude.
"The longest continually inhabited city in the world" is Damascus, Syria, at 33°30'N latitude.
The narrow Khyber Pass, which separates Pakistan from Afghanistan and which was traversed by various invaders of India, is 33 miles long.
The 33°30'N parallel runs through the disputed Kashmir region along with the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad; also, the Northern Himalayas, and Lungdo, Tibet.
The Republic of Kiribati (1995 est. pop. 79,000), consists of 33 islands scattered across 2,400 mi (3,860 km) of the Pacific Ocean near the equator.
Rainbow Bridge National Monument, the largest natural bridge in the world, is a symmetrical, pink sandstone arch measuring 309 ft (94 m) high, 33 ft (10 m) wide, with a 278-ft (85-m) span.
The place where 33°30'N, meets 33°30'E, is near the Southern end of the island of Cyprus, in the Mediterranean Sea, believed to host vast, unexplored archeological resources from nearby ancient cultures, allegedly even the lost city of Atlantis. Recent sonar imagery of the region reveals underwater structures resembling canals measuring 330 ft. wide with 33 ft. high walls.
Roswell, New Mexico is at 33°37'N latitude. This geo-latitudinal line also passes through what is known as the "Bermuda Triangle" in the Atlantic Ocean.
Hiroshima, Japan, is very nearly situated at the intersection of 133°30'E longitude and 33°30'N latitude. Nagasaki is near the 33°30'N, as well as is the White Sands Testing Range (New Mexico), where the atom bomb was first detonated.
The population of South Korea is approximately 33 million.
Babylon (ancient) Harappa, Indus Valley (ancient) Baghdad, Iraq Damascus, Syria Islamabad, and Rawalpindi, Pakistan Casablanca, Morocco Beirut, Lebanon Qiryat Shemona, Nahariyya, and Ma'alot Tarshikha, Israel Phoenix, Tempe, and Scottsdale, Arizona* Anaheim, Brea, East Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Long Beach, Oceanside, Escondido, Encinitas, Indio, Irvine, Newport Beach, Palm Springs, San Diego, and San Juan Capistrano, California Some Southern Hemisphere locales (33°30'S) are:
Note: Regarding the dynamics of rotating spherical objects, we see that delineated latitudes are fixed circum-spherically in relation to the axis. For this reason, geo-latitudinal lines are "real" while the earth is in motion, each having dynamic features unique to its given location, such as speed of rotation and centripetal/centrifugal forces. (As well, any point along such a line will pass through at each rotation a static location relative to any geo-axially fixed point in space.) Any lines of longitude circumscribed on the globe are, of course, only arbitrarily and artificially significant (except to directly delineate along the surface the orientation of the axis); they do not meaningfully relate to the rotation of the body. Following this reasoning, the 33°33...' lines of Earth's latitude, North and South, are relatively meaningful. [Please contact me with any relevant clarifications or information.]
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* Phoenix is the city in which I was born and where I currently reside, adjacent to Tempe and Scottsdale. Phoenix's altitude is 332 meters above sea level. Arizona's geographical area is: 294,333 km2. [See also, "About 33 Mysteries" ]
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