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UPSC Prelims · General Studies

Geography

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Geomorphology and the Earth

Latitude, longitude and time

Practise 2 PYQs

Concepts to cover

  1. Latitude: Equator, Tropics, Arctic and Antarctic Circles, heat zones
  2. Longitude and local time: 15 degrees per hour
  3. Standard time, time zones and countries with many zones
  4. International Date Line and the change of date across the Bering Strait
  5. Great circles, the graticule and reading a map grid
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