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117th meridian east

Line of longitude

Line of longitude

The meridian 117° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The 117th meridian east forms a great circle with the 63rd meridian west.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 117th meridian east passes through:

:{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ! scope="col" width="130" | Co-ordinates ! scope="col" | Country, territory or sea ! scope="col" | Notes |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Arctic Ocean |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Laptev Sea |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Sakha Republic Irkutsk Oblast — from Zabaykalsky Krai — from |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" |

Inner Mongolia

| ! scope="row" | | |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Inner Mongolia Hebei – from Beijing – from Hebei – from Tianjin – from Hebei – from Shandong – from , passing through Jinan (at ) Jiangsu – from Anhui – from Jiangxi – from Fujian – from Guangdong – from , mainland and island of Nan'ao |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | South China Sea |- | ! scope="row" |

Balabac Island
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| ! scope="row" |

Sabah – Balambangan Island
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| ! scope="row" |

Sabah – island of Borneo

| ! scope="row" | | North Kalimantan East Kalimantan Future capital of Indonesia East Kalimantan (Balikpapan) |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Makassar Strait |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Java Sea |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Bali Sea |- | ! scope="row" |

Island of Sumbawa
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| ! scope="row" |

Western Australia
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| ! scope="row" | Antarctica

Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by
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References

References

  1. "What is longitude?".
  2. Darby, Andrew. (22 December 2003). "Canberra all at sea over position of Southern Ocean". The Age.
  3. "Indian Ocean". Encyclopædia Britannica.
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