Dushanbe through 250 million years

Dushanbe lay at 41° north, the latitude of New York City today.

The first dinosaurs

Dushanbe lay at 51° north, the latitude of Brussels today.

Farthest north.

Dushanbe lay at 60° north.

The great extinction

Dushanbe lay at 33° north, the latitude of Tripoli today.

Homo sapiens

Dushanbe lay at 39° north, its latitude today.

Dushanbe today.

39° north. In 250 million years the plates have carried it some 9,100 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 41° north; 250 million years ago
Farthest south: 33° north; 70 million years ago
Farthest north: 60° north; 210 million years ago
Distance travelled: 9,100 kilometres; 250 million years

other places

Positions come from the plate model of Merdith and colleagues (2021), through the GPlates Web Service of the EarthByte Group at the University of Sydney. The globe shows today's coastlines carried back with their plates, not the shorelines of the time, so it does not say whether a place was land or sea. Cities and their coordinates come from Wikidata.