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What is the longitudinal extent of India? Explain its two effects.

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Indialies wholly in the northern and eastern hemispheres. The main land ofIndiaextends from 8o 4' 28" N to 37o 17' 53" N latitudes and from 68o 7' 53"E to 97o 24' 47" E longitudes. The latitudinal andlongitudinal extent of Indiais approximately the same i.e. 30o.

effects- Time zones. If it is 0600 in Arunachal, it will be 0430 hrs in Bhuj. That is why North eastern statewanted their 1 hour ahead of IST. Indian standard time is fixed on longitutde 88 degrees east.

It will be very confusing if more than one time zone is created. However in

There are U S 7 time zones, Russia has 11 time zones. But they are able to manage somehow



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