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Prime passes through so many places like UK, France, Spain etc especially Greenwich in London.

So why we call it as Greenwich meridian?? I know it passes to Greenwich London that's why we call it but it also passes to other places.

why we didn't call it with name of any other city through which it pass?? why we call it Greenwich meridian only??

Any special thing in Greenwich??

Hope u r able to understand me.

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Answer 1

Answer:

• Yeah, Prime meridian is also know as Green which meridian because prime meridian cross through a place in London called Greenwich.

• This prime meridian also do cross in several other places such as e United Kingdom, France and Spain, Algeria, etc.

• Not only Greenwich meridian is it's another name it is also called in other names such as International Meridian and also International date line.

• This Greenwich meridian shows 0° latitude, this is a imagery made by human's to calculate and know the latitude and longitude of our Earth.

• Refer both the attachment to know the location of Prime meridian, Equator, Greenwich in London, Refer the degrees of the different parts of the earth.

Finally, the only reason why Prime meridian is known as Greenwich media because prime passes through Greenwich in London.

Answer 2

Explanation:

ANSWER:-

Greenwich is considered as Prime Meridian As:-

• The 0 degree longitude passes through Greenwich
• Greenwich is a small city which is located in England near london
• The zero degree that means the central longitude passes through this place
• No other place was considered because this was not getting matched with calculations

Ujjain :- Why not this?

• In early years Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh was considered as zero degree longitude
• But this was creating a difference of 266 kilometre
• It is not at the centre of World
• So the place was calculated and Greenwich was found to be correct place of the central longitude.

More:-

GMT:-

• Nowadays in modern digital clocks, GMT's are used
• It stands for Greenwich Meridian Time
• The time is based on how much fast the time is in a specific place
• For Example
• India's Time is GMT+8:00
• This means the time of India is 8 hours faster than Greenwich local time