find out the standard meridian of the given countries nepal,Pakistan, Bangladesh, England, Malaysia, Japan
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The easiest local standard for time is meridian that is when the sun position directly aligns with the local longitude meridian.
Standard Meridian of Nepal is longitude 86°20'E. It passes through Mount Gauri Shankar.
The standard meridian of Pakistan is longitude 74 degrees, 22' east, and Lahore UTC/GMT plus 6 hours
The standard meridian of Bangladesh is 90.00° E longitude, which passes over the Harukandi Union of Harirampur Upazila of the Manikganj District, Bangladesh.
The standard meridian of England is Longitude 0 degre, which passes over Greenwich.
The standard meridian of Malaysia is longitude 105 degree.
The standard meridian of Japan is longitude 135 degrees east.
The standard Meridian, from which time and geographical location of a country is calculated is the most important longitude of a country.
Latitudes and Longitudes which are also known as the Geographical coordinates, play an important role in fixing local time and navigation. With the geographic coordinates, one can perfectly pinpoint a location in any part of the world using a reference location.
Usually, Greenwich prime Meridian is used as a reference location to locate any geographical coordinates across the world and calculate time of any country. Greenwich perfectly divided the earth into equal parts and became the point of reference to calculate time and location.
There are four standards that are used to represent the geographical coordinates. They are
- Simple Decimal Standard
- Decimal Degrees
- Degrees and decimal Minutes
- Degrees, Minutes and Seconds.
Your answers are
- Standard meridian of Pakistan – 74° E
- Standard meridian of Nepal – 86° E
- Standard meridian of Bangladesh – 90° E
- Standard meridian of England – 0° (Greenwich Prime Meridian)
- Standard meridian of Malaysia – 105° E
- Standard meridian of Japan – 135 ° E
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