Name: The Importance of Standard Time
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 4 min 21 s
Description: Time zones vary from place to place. To maintain uniformity, countries adopt standard time. But what is India's standard time, and how is it measured?

Question

With the help of an atlas find the longitude and latitudes and longitudes of the following cities.

New Delhi, Washington D.C, Paris, Melbourne, Cairo, Brasília, Tokyo, San Francisco, Cape Town, Moscow.

Which city is closer to the equator?
Which city is closest to the Tropic of Cancer?
Which city is closest to the Prime Meridian?
Name the cities that lie in the Northern and Southern hemispheres respectively.
Name the cities that lie in the Eastern and Western hemispheres respectively.

Accepted Answer

Sl.No.

City

Latitude

Longitude

1

New Delhi

$28 . 7^{0}$ N

$77 . 1^{0}$ E

2

Washington D.C

$38 . 5^{0}$ N

$77 . 2^{0}$ W

3

Paris

$48 . 9^{0}$ N

$2 . 4^{0}$ E

4

Melbourne

$37 . 8^{0}$ S

$144 . 9^{0}$ E

5

Cairo

$30 . 04^{0}$ N

$31 . 2^{0}$ E

6

Brasilia

$15 . 8^{0}$ S

$47 . 9^{0}$ W

7

Tokyo

$35 . 7^{0}$ N

$139 . 7^{0}$ E

8

San Francisco

$37 . 7^{0}$ N

$122 . 4^{0}$ W

9

Cape Town

$33 . 9^{0}$ S

$18 . 4^{0}$ E

10

Moscow

$55 . 6^{0}$ N

$37 . 6^{0}$ E

Brasilia located at $15 . 8^{0}$ South is nearest to the equator among the given cities. Larger areas fall under the tropics so, the climate is generally hot and humid.

Mexico, Cairo, and New Delhi lie near the Tropic of Cancer.

The Prime Meridian passes through Greenwich and among the given cities, Paris is the closest.

New Delhi, Washington D.C, Paris, Cairo, Tokyo, San Francisco, and Moscow lie in the Northern hemisphere, whereas Melbourne, Cape Town, and Brasilia lie in the Southern hemisphere.

New Delhi, Paris, Melbourne, Cairo, Tokyo, Cape Town and Moscow lies in the Eastern Hemisphere while Washington D.C, Brasilia and San Francisco lie in the Western hemisphere. The equator divides the Northern hemisphere from the Southern one and the Prime Meridian divides the Eastern hemisphere from the Western one.

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