Sunrise in eastern Arunachal Pradesh would be about how many hours before the sunrise in western Guj...........

Geography and Environment (NDA) Physiography of India

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Sunrise in eastern Arunachal Pradesh would be about how many hours before the sunrise in western Gujarat?

One hour

Two hours

Three hours

Four hours

Explanation:

The sun rises two hours earlier in Arunachal Pradesh as compared to Gujarat.

India lies between the Meridians of longitude 68°7’ and 97°25’ East. The time difference between each longitude (each degree) is 4 minutes.

A (geographic) meridian (or line of longitude) is the half of an imaginary great circle on the Earth's surface, terminated by the North Pole and the South Pole, connecting points of equal longitude, as measured in angular degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian.