Arctic Circle

English

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Proper noun

Arctic Circle

1. The line which marks approximately the southernmost place in the Northern Hemisphere where the sun does not set on the summer solstice and does not rise on the winter solstice.

Translations

one of the five major circles of latitude

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 北極圈 (cmn), 北极圈 (cmn) (běijíquān)

• Finnish: pohjoinen napapiiri (fi)
• French: cercle arctique (fr) m
• German: Nördlicher Polarkreis (de) m
• Greek: αρκτικός κύκλος (el) (arcticós kýklos) m

• Hungarian: Északi-sarkkör (hu)
• Italian: Circolo Polare Artico (it) m
• Japanese: 北極線 (ja) (ほっきょくせん, hokkyokusen)
• Russian: северный полярный круг (ru) (sévernyj poljárnyj krug) m
• Swedish: norra polcirkeln c (definite singular)