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We extend the two-dimensional results of Jerison (2000) on the location of the nodal set of the first Neumann eigenfunction of a convex domain to higher dimensions. If a convex domain in is contained in a long and thin cylinder with nonempty intersections with and , then the first nonzero eigenvalue is well approximated by the eigenvalue of an ordinary differential equation, by a bound proportional to , whose coefficients are expressed in terms of the volume of the cross sections of the domain. Also, the first nodal set is located within a distance comparable to near the zero of the corresponding ordinary differential equation.