Hohhot through 1 billion years

Hohhot lay at 32° north, the latitude of Tel Aviv today.

Hohhot crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Hohhot crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Farthest north.

Hohhot lay at 68° north.

The Cambrian explosion

Hohhot lay at 24° north, the latitude of Taichung today.

Hohhot crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Life reaches land

Hohhot lay at 5° south, the latitude of Victoria today.

Hohhot crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Hohhot lay at 55° north, the latitude of Vilnius today.

The great extinction

Hohhot lay at 43° north, the latitude of Pristina today.

Homo sapiens

Hohhot lay at 41° north, its latitude today.

Hohhot today.

41° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 62,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 32° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 7° south; 460 million years ago
Farthest north: 68° north; 720 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 880 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 860 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 490 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 450 million years ago
Distance travelled: 62,000 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.