Kabul through 1 billion years

Kabul lay at 8° north, the latitude of Majuro today.

Farthest north.

Kabul lay at 69° north.

Kabul crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Kabul lay at 24° south, the latitude of São Paulo today.

Farthest south.

Kabul lay at 39° south.

Life reaches land

Kabul lay at 36° south, the latitude of Canberra today.

The first dinosaurs

Kabul lay at 12° north, the latitude of Bissau today.

The great extinction

Kabul lay at 29° north, the latitude of Changde today.

Homo sapiens

Kabul lay at 34° north, its latitude today.

Kabul today.

35° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 54,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 8° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 39° south; 500 million years ago
Farthest north: 69° north; 780 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 580 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 240 million years ago
Distance travelled: 54,000 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.