the southernmost vs the most southern

Both "the southernmost" and "the most southern" are correct, but they are used in different contexts. "The southernmost" is commonly used to refer to the extreme southern point of an area, while "the most southern" is used to describe something as being the most southern in a comparative sense.

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the southernmost

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to refer to the extreme southern point of an area.

This phrase is used to describe the location or point that is farthest south within a specific area or region.

Examples:

Key West is the southernmost point in the continental United States.
The southernmost tip of Africa is Cape Agulhas.
The southernmost city in the world is Ushuaia, Argentina.

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That is the southernmost tip of the American continent.
Okinawa is the southernmost island in Japan.
It is time for the southernmost guard post's rotation.
This is the sound of the southernmost point
The Greek language has survived for thousands of years in the southernmost part of Italy but is now under threat of extinction.
The traditional name for Alpha Cassiopeia, the southernmost star of the Cassiopeia constellation.
Temperatures of 20ºC in the north and 22ºC in the southernmost fields.
It's the southernmost city in the world, the gateway to Antarctica and the last outpost of civilisation in the southern hemisphere.
A 1937 Moselle in the southernmost corner of Russia?
And their descendants moving down along the coast, reaching the southernmost tip of the Americas, within just a couple of thousand years.
Gavdos is an island 24 nautical miles south of Crete, and is the southernmost inhabited part of the EU.
So yes, 25000 people are nothing, they are a drop in the ocean for the entire Union but 1000 people arriving in the southernmost Member State are a lot.
For instance, a significant Slovenian minority lives in the southernmost province of Austria, Kärnten, and their language is protected and taken into consideration in the Austrian educational system in exemplary fashion.
And then beyond Salcantay, of course, when the southern cross reaches the southernmost point in the sky, directly in that same alignment, the Milky Way overhead.
Under your guidance, my dear friend, I began to get to know your wonderful country, from the volcanic deserts of the north to the alpine landscapes of the south, and to the southernmost parts of the country.
But then again, in warm conditions, especially in the southernmost countries of the Union, where rooms must be kept cool with air-conditioning, the costs resulting from quiescent currents are doubled.
My unit is posted in the southernmost point of the front... near the Qattara Depression.
At a place far far, endlessly far south beyond this Island, [Okinawa is the southernmost part of Japan, south of Okinawa can be interpreted as "another world".]
But it was spoken in Tierra del Fuego, the very southernmost point of South America.
But to understand how the Moon looks to us from Earth's surface, I actually like to turn the picture around, with the Earth on its side and the Moon at its southernmost point on its tilted orbit.

Alternatives:

the most southernly
the furthest south
the farthest south
the most southerly

the most southern

This phrase is correct and is used to describe something as being the most southern in a comparative sense.

This phrase is used when comparing the southern location of multiple places or objects.

Examples:

Australia is the most southern continent.
The most southern state in the United States is Hawaii.
The most southern part of the country experiences warmer weather.

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No, even the most southern part of the city is submerged.
The most southern Bulgarian mountain - Slavyanka Mountain - is part of the Rila-Rhodopes massif.
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored.
As soon as we get there, we'll go lookin' for the most beautiful Southern belle doll.
For example Luxembourg spends the most, whilst southern European countries spend less.
Zone 1 covers the most central and southern parts of the country.
The most fortified city in southern France.
Most of the southern sector is already iced, except here.
We're the most diverse species in southern Africa!
Mr President, in the most recent referendum in Southern Sudan, the people decided that the old, arbitrary colonial borders should fall.
The Ria Formosa area is the most important wetland in southern Portugal, in terms of size, diversity and structural complexity.
The implication seems to be that the whole sector is expendable, along with the thousands of agricultural workers involved who reside in the most disadvantaged areas of southern Europe.
Stresses the anomaly of the fact that Algerciras, the most important port in southern Spain, should have no rail link with a major centre like Málaga;
I am simply pointing out that most Southern California restaurants employ kitchen help of Latin descent.
Biggest one in the Southern hemisphere.
Southern armies marched north claiming for autonomy.
This way, the southern officer also...
Another postcard from that Southern guy, Harley.
Southern Pennsylvania will always be indebted to them.
Judge Waties Waring, rare Southern maverick.

Alternatives:

the most southerly
the most south
the most southernmost
the southernmost

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