Where is Himalayan mountains located?
India
Which location is based on latitude and longitude and is an exact location?
A place’s absolute location is its exact place on Earth, often given in terms of latitude and longitude. For example, the Empire State Building is located at 40.7 degrees north (latitude), 74 degrees west (longitude).
What is the longitude and latitude location of India?
20.5937° N, 78.9629° E
Why 82.5 is taken as the standard meridian of India?
82°30′ E has been selected as the Standard Meridian of India because it is situated in the centre of all longitudes and latitudes in which our country is located. This is because India is a vast country and have a great difference in sunrise timing along East in Gujrat and West in Arrunachal Pradesh.
What is use of standard meridian?
Standard Meridian is the longitude which is used to describe time of a country. It ideally should be the same for the whole country and all the places in a country should follow this same time. The standard meridian of India is 82.5 ° E and it passes through Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh.
Why standard meridian is so important?
⭕ standard meridian is useful for a country because it shows and fixes a particular time for the country. ⭕ A country may have many longitudes in between and there is a time gap of 4 minutes between each longitude.
What is the other name of Standard Meridian?
Another name for a meridian is longitude. Meridians are lines of longitude that are drawn from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is standard meridian of world?
As the prime meridian, the north-south line at Greenwich is used as the reference for all other meridians of longitude, which are numbered east or west of it. The Greenwich meridian also serves as the basis for the world’s standard time zone system.
Why is Greenwich called Prime Meridian?
There were two main reasons for the choice. The first was the fact that the USA had already chosen Greenwich as the basis for its own national time zone system. The second was that in the late 19th century, 72% of the world’s commerce depended on sea-charts which used Greenwich as the Prime Meridian.
What is another name for lines of longitude?
meridians