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79th meridian east

Line of longitude

Line of longitude

The meridian 79° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 79th meridian east forms a great circle with the 101st meridian west.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 79th meridian east passes through:

:{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ! scope="col" width="120" | Co-ordinates ! scope="col" | Country, territory or sea ! scope="col" | Notes |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Arctic Ocean |-valign="top" ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Kara Sea Passing just west of Uyedineniya Island, Krasnoyarsk Krai, |- | ! scope="row" |

Krasnoyarsk Krai — Nosok Island
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| ! scope="row" |

Krasnoyarsk Krai — Sibiryakov Island
! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;"
-valign="top"

| ! scope="row" | | Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Krasnoyarsk Krai — from Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug — from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — from Tomsk Oblast — from Novosibirsk Oblast — from Altai Krai — from |- | ! scope="row" |

Passing through Lake Balkhash

| ! scope="row" | | |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" |

Xinjiang

| ! scope="row" | Aksai Chin | Disputed between and |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" |

Tibet

| ! scope="row" | Aksai Chin | Disputed between and |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" |

Tibet

| ! scope="row" | | Ladakh |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" |

Tibet

| ! scope="row" | Aksai Chin | Disputed between and |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Uttarakhand Uttar Pradesh — from Madhya Pradesh — from Uttar Pradesh — from Madhya Pradesh — from Maharashtra — from , passing 9km west of Nagpur Telangana — from Andhra Pradesh — from Tamil Nadu — from Andhra Pradesh — from Tamil Nadu — from |- ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Indian Ocean |- | ! scope="row" |

Tamil Nadu
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| ! scope="row" | Antarctica

Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by
}

References

References

  1. "What is longitude?".
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