Hanoi through 1 billion years

Hanoi lay at 20° north, the latitude of Naypyidaw today.

Farthest north.

Hanoi lay at 81° north.

Hanoi crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Hanoi lay at 15° south, the latitude of Lusaka today.

Life reaches land

Hanoi lay at 17° south, the latitude of La Paz today.

Hanoi crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Hanoi crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Hanoi crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Hanoi lay at 28° north, the latitude of Changsha today.

The great extinction

Hanoi lay at 22° north, the latitude of Hong Kong today.

Homo sapiens

Hanoi lay at 21° north, its latitude today.

Hanoi today.

21° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 56,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 20° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 21° south; 560 million years ago
Farthest north: 81° north; 800 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 580 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 310 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 290 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 280 million years ago
Distance travelled: 56,000 kilometres; 1 billion 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.