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[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Not long ago, we were having a conversation as to whether Boston or Manchester was more northern. Now, apart from the fact that Boston is in Lincolnshire, and thus clearly south of Manchester, I was confused by this.

I still am confused by this, and as I am a bear of very little brain, y'all will have to help.

According to Benedict's globe, and my Peters projection, and I can't find a handy Mercator projection, but I'm sure it's not that much different, according to those sources, the UK is north of all of the US except Alaska.

Is this wrong? Is there some other definition of north which I'm not taking into account?

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[fanf]

Wycombe is at the same latitude as the northern suburbs of London (e.g. Barnet, Edgware) but 40km to the west of the centre.

[zotz]

I'm very fond of pointing out that Edinburgh is not only west of London, but also west of Bristol.

I'm sure there's a Manchester in the States, so there still might be a sense in which it's so. Doesn't seem likely, though.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Last week we drove through/past both Manchester, PA, and Manchester, MD, so it is definitely so. Oh, and there's Manchester, SD, that I can personally vouch for, although that has a population of 15 so you may wish to discount it. ;-)