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Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from town to town. As telecommunications improved and with the expansion of the railways this became increasingly awkward. Time zones partially rectified the problem by setting the clocks of a region to the same mean solar time. Time zones are generally centered on meridians of a longitude that is a multiple of 15° thus making neighboring time zones one hour apart. However, the one hour separation is not universal and, as the map below shows, the shapes of time zones can be quite irregular because they usually follow the boundaries of states, countries or other administrative areas. Earth, also known as the Earth or Terra, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ... 8:17 am, August 6, 1945, Japanese time. ... Solar time is based on the idea that, when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky, it is noon. ... A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, relatively stereotypical of a small town A town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. ... Telecommunication is the extension of communication over a distance. ... This article is about the geographical concept. ... Map of Earth showing curved lines of longitude Longitude, sometimes denoted λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ...

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Standard Time Zones of the World by the CIA

All time zones are defined relative to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The reference point for Time Zones is the Prime Meridian (longitude 0°) which passes through the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, London, United Kingdom [1] (http://greenwichmeantime.com/). For this reason the term Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is still often used (by the BBC, for example, amongst others) to denote the "base time" to which all other time zones are relative. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly carried out at Greenwich. Download high resolution version (1364x722, 292 KB)Standard Time Zones of the World. ... Download high resolution version (1364x722, 292 KB)Standard Time Zones of the World. ... Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, is an atomic realization of Universal Time or Greenwich mean time, the astronomical basis for civil time. ... The Prime Meridian, Greenwich The Prime Meridian is the meridian (line of longitude) passing through the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich, England; it is the meridian at which longitude is 0 degrees. ... Map of Earth showing curved lines of longitude Longitude, sometimes denoted λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... Royal Observatory, Greenwich The original site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), which was built as a workplace for the Astronomer Royal, was on a hill in Greenwich Park in Greenwich, London, overlooking the River Thames. ... Greenwich (pronounced or ) is a town, now part of the south eastern urban sprawl of London, on the south bank of the river Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich. ... Greater London and the Regions of England. ... For alternate meanings of GMT, see GMT (disambiguation). ... For alternate meanings of GMT, see GMT (disambiguation). ... ...


GMT (UTC) is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only between 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in October and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in March. For the remainder of the year local time is UTC + 1—known in the UK as British Summer Time (BST). British Summer Time (BST), known in Ireland as Irish Summer Time (IST), is the daylight saving time in effect in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October each year. ...


The time for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:

  • Los Angeles, California, USA: UTC − 8 (e.g. if it is 12:00 UTC, then it is 04:00 in Los Angeles)
  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada: UTC − 5 (e.g. if it is 11:00 UTC, then it is 06:00 in Toronto)
  • Stockholm, Sweden: UTC + 1 (e.g. if it is 12:00 UTC, then it is 13:00 in Stockholm)
  • Istanbul, Turkey: UTC + 2 (e.g. if it is 03:00 UTC, then it is 05:00 in Istanbul)
  • Mumbai, India: UTC + 5.5 (e.g. if it is 13:00 UTC, then it is 18:30 in Mumbai)
  • Tokyo, Japan: UTC + 9 (e.g. if it is 11:00 UTC, then it is 20:00 in Tokyo)

Where the adjustment for time zones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day later or earlier. Some examples: Griffith Observatory and the Downtown Los Angeles skyline. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Motto: Diversity Our Strength Map of Ontario Counties, Toronto being red Area: 641 sq. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th)  - Land 917,741 km²  - Water 158,654 km² (14. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... This article is about the city. ... Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the most populous Indian city. ... Tokyo (東京; Tōkyō  listen, literally eastern capital), is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu in Japan. ...

  • Cairo, Egypt: UTC + 2 (e.g. if it is 23:00 UTC on Monday 15 March, then the time in Cairo is 01:00, Tuesday 16 March)
  • Auckland, New Zealand: UTC + 12 (e.g. if it is 21:00 UTC on Wednesday 30 June, then the time in Auckland is 09:00, Thursday 1 July)
  • New York, USA: UTC − 5 (e.g. if it is 02:00 UTC on Tuesday, then the time in NY is 21:00 on Monday)
  • Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA: UTC − 10 (e.g. if it is 06:00 UTC on Monday 1 May, then the time in Honolulu is 20:00, Sunday 30 April)

Note: The time zone adjustment for a specific location may vary due to the use of daylight saving time. View of the modern citys skyline. ... Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest urban area in New Zealand. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... Honolulu as seen from the International Space Station Honolulu is the largest city and the capital of the U.S. state of Hawai‘i. ... State nickname: The Aloha State Other U.S. States Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Governor Linda Lingle Official languages Hawaiian and English Area 28,337 km² (43rd)  - Land 16,649 km²  - Water 11,672 km² (41. ... Daylight saving time (also called DST, or Summer Time) is the portion of the year in which a regions local time is advanced by (usually) one hour from its standard official time. ...

See also: Sidereal time Calculating local time The Southern Hemisphere is the part of Earths surface that is south of the equator. ... Summer is one of the four temperate seasons. ... Sidereal time is time measured by the motion of the stars rather than the sun. ... The Sun shines on different parts of the Earth at different times. ...

Contents
1 History
2 List of time zones and contained areas

2.1 UTC − 12 Y
2.2 UTC − 11 X
2.3 UTC − 10 W
2.4 UTC − 9:30 V*
2.5 UTC − 9 V
2.6 UTC − 8 U
2.7 UTC − 7 T
2.8 UTC − 6 S
2.9 UTC − 5 R
2.10 UTC − 4 Q
2.11 UTC − 3:30 P*
2.12 UTC − 3 P
2.13 UTC − 2 O
2.14 UTC − 1 N
2.15 UTC Z
2.16 UTC + 1 A
2.17 UTC + 2 B
2.18 UTC + 3 C
2.19 UTC + 3:30 C*
2.20 UTC + 4 D
2.21 UTC + 4:30 D*
2.22 UTC + 5 E
2.23 UTC + 5:30 E*
2.24 UTC + 5:45 E‡
2.25 UTC + 6 F
2.26 UTC + 6:30 F*
2.27 UTC + 7 G
2.28 UTC + 8 H
2.29 UTC + 8:45 H‡
2.30 UTC + 9 I
2.31 UTC + 9:30 I*
2.32 UTC + 10 K
2.33 UTC + 10:30 K*
2.34 UTC + 11 L
2.35 UTC + 11:30 L*
2.36 UTC + 12 M
2.37 UTC + 12:45 M‡
2.38 UTC + 13 M*
2.39 UTC + 14 M†

3 See also
4 Bibliography
5 External links

History

The first time zone in the world was established by British railways on December 1, 1847—Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) being hand carried on chronometers. About August 23, 1852, time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Even though 98% of the Great Britain's public clocks were using GMT by 1855, it was not made Britain's legal time until August 2, 1880. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to the island of Ireland. December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... For alternate meanings of GMT, see GMT (disambiguation). ... A chronometer is a clock designed to have sufficient long-term accuracy that it can be used as a portable time standard on a vehicle, usually in order to determine longitude by means of celestial navigation. ... August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Royal Observatory, Greenwich The original site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), which was built as a workplace for the Astronomer Royal, was on a hill in Greenwich Park in Greenwich, London, overlooking the River Thames. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...


On November 2, 1868, New Zealand officially adopted a standard time to be observed nationally, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitude 172° 30' East of Greenwich, that is 11 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. This standard was known as New Zealand Mean Time. November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Greenwich (pronounced or ) is a town, now part of the south eastern urban sprawl of London, on the south bank of the river Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich. ...


Multiple time zones were first proposed by Charles F. Dowd about 1863 for American railroads as a teacher to his students. In 1870, after consulting railroad officials in 1869, he proposed four ideal time zones, the first centered on Washington, DC, but by 1872 the first was centered 75°W of Greenwich with geographic borders. American and Canadian railroads implemented their own version on Sunday, November 18, 1883, when each railroad station clock was either advanced or delayed as noon, standard time, was reached within each time zone, east to west. The zones were named Intercolonial, Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific. Within one year, 85% of all cities having populations over 10,000, about 200 cities, were using standard time. A notable exception was Detroit, Michigan, which kept local time until 1900, then vacillated between Central Standard Time, Sun time, and Eastern Standard Time until it settled on EST by ordinance May 1915, ratified by popular vote August 1916. This hodgepodge was made uniform when Standard zone time was made legal by the U.S. Congress in 1918. 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years), with 43 remaining. ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... City motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) City nicknames: The Motor City and Motown Location in the state of Michigan Founded July 24, 1701 County Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 370. ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Seal of the Congress. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...


Time zones were first proposed for the entire world by Canada's Sir Sandford Fleming in 1876 as an appendage to the single 24-hour clock he proposed for the entire world (located at the center of the Earth and not linked to any surface meridian!). In 1879 he specified that his universal day would begin at the anti-meridian of Greenwich (now called 180°), while conceding that hourly time zones might have some limited local use. He continued to advocate his system at subsequent international conferences. In October 1884 the International Meridian Conference did not adopt his time zones because they were not within its purview. The conference did adopt a universal day of 24 hours beginning at Greenwich midnight, but specified that it "shall not interfere with the use of local or standard time where desirable." Nevertheless, most major countries had adopted hourly time zones by 1929. Even today, they have not been fully realized, with several time zones keeping a standard time that is not offset by a number of whole hours from Greenwich Mean Time. Sir Sandford Fleming Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 - July 22, 1915) was a prolific Canadian engineer and inventor, known for the introduction of Universal Standard Time, Canadas first postage stamp, a huge body of surveying and map making, engineering much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... The Prime Meridian, Greenwich The Prime Meridian is the meridian (line of longitude) passing through the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich, England; it is the meridian at which longitude is 0 degrees. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...


Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon). During 1917, at the Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones on the high seas. Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any nation it would use that nation's standard time. The captain was permitted to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's entry into another time zone—he often chose midnight. These zones were adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many independent merchant ships until World War II. 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...


Time on ship's clocks and in a ship's log had to be stated along with a "zone description", which was the number of hours that was to be added to zone time to obtain GMT, hence zero in the Greenwich time zone, and negative numbers from −1 to −12 for time zones to the east and positive numbers from +1 to +12 to the west (hours, minutes, and seconds for nations without an hourly offset). These signs are opposite to those given below because ships must obtain GMT from zone time, not zone time from GMT. All zones were pole-to-pole staves 15° wide except for −12 and +12, which were each 7.5° wide separated by a longitude of 180°. Unlike the zig-zagging land-based International Date Line, the nautical International Date Line follows 180° except where it is interrupted by territorial waters and the lands they border, including islands. About 1950, a letter suffix was added to the zone description, assigning Z to the zero zone, and A-M (except J) to the east and N-Y to the west (J may be assigned to local time in non-nautical applications). These were to be vocalized using a phonetic alphabet which included Zulu for GMT. Map of Earth showing curved lines of longitude Longitude, sometimes denoted λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... Jagged red line down the right is the International Date Line The International Date Line is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A different kind of phonetic alphabet is the International Phonetic Alphabet. ...


These nautical letters have been added to some time zone maps, like the map of Standard Time Zones (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/world_tzones.html) by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office (NAO), which extended the letters by adding an asterisk (*) or dagger (†) for areas that do not use a nautical time zone, and a double dagger (‡) for areas that do not have a legal standard time (Greenland's ice sheet and all of Antarctica—Britain specifies UTC − 3 for the Antarctic Peninsula, but no other country recognizes that). They conveniently ignore any zone that does not have an hour or half-hour offset, so a double dagger (‡) has been co-opted for these zones below. The HM Nautical Almanac Office (HMNAO), now part of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, was established in 1832 on the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, where the Nautical Almanac had been published since 1767. ... This article refers to the asterisk symbol. ... A dagger (†, †, U+2020) is a typographical symbol or glyph. ... An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 square kilometers (12 million acres). ... Booth Island and Mount Scott flank the narrow Lemaire Channel on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. ...


In maritime usage, GMT retains its historical meaning of UT1, the mean solar time at Greenwich. UTC, atomic time at Greenwich, is too inaccurate, differing by as much as 0.9 s from UT1, creating an error of 0.4 km in longitude at the equator. However, DUT can be added to UTC to correct it to within 50 ms of UT1, reducing the error to only 20 m. Universal Time (UT) is a timescale based on the rotation of the Earth. ... DUT is also an acronym for the Dalian University of Technology DUT describes the difference between coordinated universal time (UTC) and universal time (UT) and is transmitted by some radio time signal services. ...


List of time zones and contained areas

Regions marked with asterisks (* or **) observe Daylight Saving Time: add 1 hour in summer (* for Northern Hemisphere summer; ** for Southern Hemisphere). Daylight saving time (also called DST, or Summer Time) is the portion of the year in which a regions local time is advanced by (usually) one hour from its standard official time. ... Summer is one of the four temperate seasons. ... The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planets surface (or celestial sphere) that is north of the equator. ... The Southern Hemisphere is the part of Earths surface that is south of the equator. ...


Some zones north-south of each other in the mid Pacific differ by 24 hours in time: they have the same time of the day but differ by a full day. The two extreme time zones on Earth (both in the mid Pacific) differ by 26 hours. A particular day starts earlier in countries with a more positive UTC offset. Thus the first occurrence of a date will be in UTC + 14 and the last of the same date in UTC − 12 (at sea). This gives the interesting feature that during one hour each day there are three different dates in use on land around the world, at 10:30 UTC Monday it is already 00:30 Tuesday in the Line Islands (UTC + 14) while the time is 23:30 Sunday in Samoa (UTC − 11) [2] (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html?sort=2). For other meanings of Pacific, see Pacific (disambiguation). ...


Stations in Antarctica generally keep the time of their supply bases, thus both the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (U.S.) and McMurdo Station (U.S.) use New Zealand time (UTC + 12 southern winter, UTC + 13 southern summer). Time zone abbreviations are almost always customary, not legal—those listed here only exist in English and are somewhat arbitrary. English time zone names below generally only apply to English speaking areas. The CIA and NAO disagree on the time kept by some Russian oblasts, so both are given below—this may be due to a recent time zone change. The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is an American research station at Earths South Pole in Antarctica. ... A scene at McMurdo Station McMurdo Station, located at 77° 51 South latitude, 166° 40 East longitude, sits on the southern tip of Ross Island in Antarctica, 2,200 miles (3,500 km) due south of New Zealand, and serves as the logistics hub for half the continent. ... CIA, see CIA (disambiguation). ... An oblast (Russian, Ukrainian: о́бласть) is a subnational entity of Bulgaria, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the now-defunct Soviet Union, approximately equivalent to a province. ...


UTC − 12 Y

Only ships at sea within 7.5° east of 180°. Y is the twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. ...


For Kwajalein, Eniwetok, and Bikini atolls, see note at UTC + 12 M. Kwajalein Atoll - NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) Satellite Image Kwajalein Atoll is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), 2,100 nautical miles (3900 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, at 8°43′ N 167°44′ E. Kwajalein is one the worlds largest coral atolls (not by... Enewetak (or Eniwetok) is an atoll in the Marshall Islands of the central Pacific Ocean. ... Bikini Atoll - NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) Satellite Image Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an uninhabited 6. ...


UTC − 11 X

X is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Midway Atoll (also known as Midway Island or Midway Islands) is a 6. ...

UTC − 10 W

W is the twenty-third letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Categories: Oceania geography stubs | French Polynesia ... Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, at 17° 40 South, 149° 30 West. ... Categories: Stub | Polynesia ... The Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone includes the state of Hawaii, and the Aleutian Islands west of 169º 30 W. It is the time zone located just west of the Alaska Standard Time Zone. ... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st)  - Land 1,481,347 km²  - Water 236,507 km² (13. ... Looking down the Aleutians from an airplane. ... State nickname: The Aloha State Other U.S. States Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Governor Linda Lingle Official languages Hawaiian and English Area 28,337 km² (43rd)  - Land 16,649 km²  - Water 11,672 km² (41. ...

UTC − 9:30 V*

V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... National motto: Mau‘u‘u ha‘e iti Official languages French, Tahitian Political status Dependent territory, administrative division of French Polynesia Capital Tai o Hae Largest City Tai o Hae Area 1,274 km² ( 492 sq. ...

UTC − 9 V

V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... The Gambier Islands (Îles Gambier in French) are a small group of islands in French Polynesia, located at the southeast terminus of the Tuamotu archipelago. ... The Alaska Time Zone is a Time Zone located west of the Pacific Time Zone. ... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st)  - Land 1,481,347 km²  - Water 236,507 km² (13. ...

UTC − 8 U

U is the twenty-first letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... The Pacific Standard Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Splendour without diminishment) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Area 944,735 km² (5th)  - Land 925,186 km²  - Water 19,549 km² (2. ... Motto: none Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Whitehorse Largest city Whitehorse Commissioner Jack Cable Premier Dennis Fentie (Yukon Party) Area 482,443 km² (9th)  - Land 474,391 km²  - Water 8,052 km² (1. ... Other Mexican States Capital Mexicali Other major cities Tijuana Ensenada list of municipalities Area 69,921 km² Ranked 12th Population (2000 census) 2,487,700 Ranked 15th Governor (2001-07) Eugenio Elorduy Walther (PAN/PVEM) Federal Deputies (6) PAN = 6 Federal Senators PAN = 2 PRI = 1 ISO 3166-2 Postal... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... State nickname: Gem State Other U.S. States Capital Boise Largest city Boise Governor Dirk Kempthorne Official languages none Area 216,632 km² (14th)  - Land 214,499 km²  - Water 2,133 km² (0. ... The Salmon River is located in Idaho in the northwestern United States. ... State nickname: Beaver State Other U.S. States Capital Salem Largest city Portland Governor Ted Kulongoski Official languages None Area 255,026 km² (9th)  - Land 248,849 km²  - Water 6,177 km² (2. ... Idaho County is a county located in the state of Idaho. ... Lemhi County is a county located in the state of Idaho. ... State nickname: Treasure State Other U.S. States Capital Helena Largest city Billings Governor Brian Schweitzer Official languages English Area 381,156 km² (4th)  - Land 377,295 km²  - Water 3,862 km² (1%) Population (2000)  - Population 902,194 (44th)  - Density 2. ... State nickname: Silver State, Battle Born State (official) Other U.S. States Capital Carson City Largest city Las Vegas Governor Kenny Guinn Official languages None Area 286,367 km² (7th)  - Land 284,396 km²  - Water 1,971 km² (0. ... West Wendover is a city located in Elko County, Nevada. ... State nickname: Beaver State Other U.S. States Capital Salem Largest city Portland Governor Ted Kulongoski Official languages None Area 255,026 km² (9th)  - Land 248,849 km²  - Water 6,177 km² (2. ... Malheur County is a county located in the southeast corner of the state of Oregon. ... State nickname: The Evergreen State Other U.S. States Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Governor Christine Gregoire Official languages None Area 184,824 km² (18th)  - Land 172,587 km²  - Water 12,237 km² (6. ...

UTC − 7 T

T is the twentieth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... The Mountain Standard Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... Motto: Fortis et Liber (Strong and free) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ralph Klein (PC) Area 661,848 km² (6th)  - Land 642,317 km²  - Water 19,531 km² (2. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Splendour without diminishment) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Area 944,735 km² (5th)  - Land 925,186 km²  - Water 19,549 km² (2. ... Categories: Regional districts of British Columbia | Geographic regions of British Columbia | Canada geography stubs ... Categories: Regional districts of British Columbia | Geographic regions of British Columbia | Canada geography stubs ... The Kootenay River (spelled Kootenai River for its American portions) is the uppermost major tributary of the Columbia River, flowing through British Columbia, Montana and Idaho. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Creston ( Lat. ... The Columbia-Shuswap Regional District is located in the heart of the southern interior region of British Columbia, on the Trans-Canada Highway between Vancouver and Calgary. ... The Selkirk Mountains are a mountain range originating in Idaho and Washington, and extending into SE British Columbia. ... A former territory in the United States is called Northwest Territory. ... For the electoral districts of the same name, see Nunavut (electoral district) and Nunavut (Senate Division). ... Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut Kitikmeot Region (Inuktitut: Qitirmiut ᕿᑎᕐᒥᐅᑦ) is a region of Nunavut. ... Motto: Multis E Gentibus Vires (From many peoples, strength) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Regina Largest city Saskatoon Lieutenant Governor Lynda M. Haverstock Premier Lorne Calvert (NDP) Area 651,036 km² (7th)  - Land 591,670 km²  - Water 59,366 km² (9. ... Lloydminster is a Canadian city which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling a provincial border. ... This article is currently in the process of being translated from its Spanish counterpart, es:Baja California Sur. ... This article is about the state in Mexico; for the city of Chihuahua, see: Chihuahua. ... Other Mexican States Capital Tepic Other major cities Acaponeta Area 26,979 km² Ranked 23rd Population (2000 census) 919,740 Ranked 28th Governor (1999-2005) Antonio Echevarría Domínguez (PRD/PAN) Federal Deputies (3) PRI = 3 Federal Senators PRI = 2 PAN = 1 ISO 3166-2 Postal abbr. ... Sinaloa is the name of a city, a municipality and a state in Mexico. ... This article is about the Mexican state of Sonora. ... State nickname: The Grand Canyon State, The Copper State Other U.S. States Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Governor Janet Napolitano Official languages English Only State Area 295,254 km² (6th)  - Land 294,312 km²  - Water 942 km² (0. ... Manuelito, Navajo chief Navajo sheep & weaver Navajo Nation (Navajo Naabeehó Dineé) is the name of a sovereign Native American nation established by the Diné. ... This is the article on the state. ... State nickname: Gem State Other U.S. States Capital Boise Largest city Boise Governor Dirk Kempthorne Official languages none Area 216,632 km² (14th)  - Land 214,499 km²  - Water 2,133 km² (0. ... The Salmon River is the name of several different rivers. ... State nickname: Beaver State Other U.S. States Capital Salem Largest city Portland Governor Ted Kulongoski Official languages None Area 255,026 km² (9th)  - Land 248,849 km²  - Water 6,177 km² (2. ... Idaho County is a county located in the state of Idaho. ... Lemhi County is a county located in the state of Idaho. ... State nickname: Treasure State Other U.S. States Capital Helena Largest city Billings Governor Brian Schweitzer Official languages English Area 381,156 km² (4th)  - Land 377,295 km²  - Water 3,862 km² (1%) Population (2000)  - Population 902,194 (44th)  - Density 2. ... State nickname: The Sunflower State Other U.S. States Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Governor Kathleen Sebelius Official languages None Area 82,277 mi²; 213,096 km² (15th)  - Land 81,815 mi²; 211,900 km²  - Water 462 mi²; 1,196 km² (0. ... Greeley County (standard abbreviation: GL) is a county located in the state of Kansas. ... Hamilton County (standard abbreviation: HM) is a county located in the state of Kansas. ... Sherman County (standard abbreviation: SH) is a county located in the state of Kansas. ... Wallace County (standard abbreviation: WA) is a county located in the state of Kansas. ... State nickname: Treasure State Other U.S. States Capital Helena Largest city Billings Governor Brian Schweitzer Official languages English Area 381,156 km² (4th)  - Land 377,295 km²  - Water 3,862 km² (1%) Population (2000)  - Population 902,194 (44th)  - Density 2. ... State nickname: Cornhusker State Other U.S. States Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Governor Dave Heineman Official languages English Area 200,520 km² (16th)  - Land 199,099 km²  - Water 1,247 km² (0. ... State nickname: Silver State, Battle Born State (official) Other U.S. States Capital Carson City Largest city Las Vegas Governor Kenny Guinn Official languages None Area 286,367 km² (7th)  - Land 284,396 km²  - Water 1,971 km² (0. ... Jackpot, Nevada is a small, unincorporated town located in the United States in the state of Nevada. ... West Wendover is a city located in Elko County, Nevada. ... State nickname: Land of Enchantment Other U.S. States Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Governor Bill Richardson Official languages English and Spanish Area 315,194 km² (5th)  - Land 314,590 km²  - Water 607 km² (0. ... State nickname: Peace Garden State, Roughrider State, Flickertail State Other U.S. States Capital Bismarck Largest city Fargo Governor John Hoeven Official languages English Area 183,272 km² (19th)  - Land 178,839 km²  - Water 4,432 km² (2. ... State nickname: Sooner State Other U.S. States Capital Oklahoma City Largest city Oklahoma City Governor Brad Henry Official languages None Area 181,196 km² (20th)  - Land 178,023 km²  - Water 3,173 km² (1. ... State nickname: Beaver State Other U.S. States Capital Salem Largest city Portland Governor Ted Kulongoski Official languages None Area 255,026 km² (9th)  - Land 248,849 km²  - Water 6,177 km² (2. ... Malheur County is a county located in the southeast corner of the state of Oregon. ... State nickname: The Mount Rushmore State Missing image Map of the U.S. with South Dakota highlighted Other U.S. States Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Governor Mike Rounds Official languages English Area 199,905 km² (17th)  - Land 196,735 km²  - Water 3,173 km² (1. ... State nickname: Lone Star State Other U.S. States Capital Austin Largest city Houston Governor Rick Perry Official languages None. ... El Paso County is a county located in the state of Texas. ... Hudspeth County is a county located in the state of Texas. ... Culberson County is a county located in the state of Texas. ... Guadalupe Mountains National Park is located in the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas and contains Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas at 8,749 feet (2,667 m) in elevation. ... State nickname: Beehive State Other U.S. States Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. ... State nickname: Equality State Other U.S. States Capital Cheyenne Largest city Cheyenne Governor Dave Freudenthal Official languages English Area 253,554 km² (10th)  - Land 251,706 km²  - Water 1,851 km² (0. ...

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S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. ... The Central Standard Time Zone (CST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting six hours from Coordinated Universal Time UTC. In the United States, the time zone includes the entire area of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas except for El... Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Glorious and free) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Winnipeg Largest city Winnipeg Lieutenant Governor John Harvard Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Area 647,797 km² (8th)  - Land 553,556 km²  - Water 64,241 km² (14. ... For the electoral districts of the same name, see Nunavut (electoral district) and Nunavut (Senate Division). ... Categories: Islands of Canada | Canada geography stubs ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th)  - Land 917,741 km²  - Water 158,654 km² (14. ... Northwestern Ontario is the region within the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north and west of Lake Superior, and west of Hudson Bay and James Bay. ... Motto: Multis E Gentibus Vires (From many peoples, strength) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Regina Largest city Saskatoon Lieutenant Governor Lynda M. Haverstock Premier Lorne Calvert (NDP) Area 651,036 km² (7th)  - Land 591,670 km²  - Water 59,366 km² (9. ... Easter Island and its location Easter Island (Polynesian: Rapa Nui (Great Rapa), Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is an island in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile. ... NASA Satellite photo of the Galápagos archipelago. ... Other Mexican States Capital Mexico City Area 1,479 km² Ranked 32nd Population (2000 census) 8,591,300 Ranked 2nd Head of Govt (2000-06) Andrés Manuel López Obrador (PRD) Federal Deputies (30) PRD = 27 PAN = 3 Federal Senators PAN = 1 PVEM = 1 PRD = 1 ISO 3166-2... Other Mexican States Capital Tepic Other major cities Acaponeta Area 26,979 km² Ranked 23rd Population (2000 census) 919,740 Ranked 28th Governor (1999-2005) Antonio Echevarría Domínguez (PRD/PAN) Federal Deputies (3) PRI = 3 Federal Senators PRI = 2 PAN = 1 ISO 3166-2 Postal abbr. ... Alabama is a state located in the southern United States; the population of Alabama is 4,447,100 as of 2000. ... State nickname: The Natural State Other U.S. States Capital Little Rock Largest city Little Rock Governor Mike Huckabee Official languages English Area 137,732 km² (29th)  - Land 134,856 km²  - Water 2,876 km² (2. ... State nickname: Everglade State, Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... View of the Apalachicola River near Fort Gadsden, Florida. ... Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. ... Gulf County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. ... Categories: Stub ... State nickname: Land of Lincoln, The Prairie State Other U.S. States Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Governor Rod Blagojevich Official languages English Area 149,998 km² (25th)  - Land 143,968 km²  - Water 6,030 km² (4. ... State nickname: The Hoosier State Other U.S. States Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Governor Mitch Daniels Official languages English Area 94,321 km² (38th)  - Land 92,897 km²  - Water 1,424 km² (1. ... Jasper County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Lake County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... LaPorte County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Newton County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Porter County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Gibson County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Posey County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Spencer County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Vanderburgh County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Warrick County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... State nickname: The Hawkeye State Other U.S. States Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Governor Thomas Vilsack Official languages English Area 145,743 km² (26th)  - Land 144,701 km²  - Water 1,042 km² (0. ... State nickname: The Sunflower State Other U.S. States Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Governor Kathleen Sebelius Official languages None Area 82,277 mi²; 213,096 km² (15th)  - Land 81,815 mi²; 211,900 km²  - Water 462 mi²; 1,196 km² (0. ... State nickname: Bluegrass State Other U.S. States Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Governor Ernie Fletcher Official languages English Area 104,749 km² (37th)  - Land 102,989 km²  - Water 1,760 km² (1. ... State nickname: Pelican State Other U.S. States Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans Governor Kathleen Blanco Official languages None; English and French de facto Area 134,382 km² (31st)  - Land 112,927 km²  - Water 21,455 km² (16%) Population (2000)  - Population 4,468,976 (22nd)  - Density 39. ... State nickname: Wolverine State or Great Lakes State Other U.S. States Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Governor Jennifer Granholm Official languages English Area 250,941 km² (11th)  - Land 147,255 km²  - Water 103,687 km² (41. ... Dickinson County is a county located in the state of Michigan. ... Gogebic County is a county located in the state of Michigan. ... Iron County is a county located in the state of Michigan. ... Menominee County is a county located in the state of Michigan. ... State nickname: North Star State Other U.S. States Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Governor Tim Pawlenty Official languages None Area 225,365 km² (12th)  - Land 206,375 km²  - Water 18,990 km² (8. ... State nickname: Magnolia State Other U.S. States Capital Jackson Largest city Jackson Governor Haley Barbour Official languages English Area 125,546 km² (32nd)  - Land 121,606 km²  - Water 3,940 km² (3%) Population (2000)  - Population 2,697,243 (31st)  - Density 23. ... Missouri, named after the Missouri Siouan Indian tribe meaning canoe, is a Midwestern state of the United States with Jefferson City as its capital. ... State nickname: Cornhusker State Other U.S. States Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Governor Dave Heineman Official languages English Area 200,520 km² (16th)  - Land 199,099 km²  - Water 1,247 km² (0. ... State nickname: Peace Garden State, Roughrider State, Flickertail State Other U.S. States Capital Bismarck Largest city Fargo Governor John Hoeven Official languages English Area 183,272 km² (19th)  - Land 178,839 km²  - Water 4,432 km² (2. ... State nickname: Sooner State Other U.S. States Capital Oklahoma City Largest city Oklahoma City Governor Brad Henry Official languages None Area 181,196 km² (20th)  - Land 178,023 km²  - Water 3,173 km² (1. ... State nickname: The Mount Rushmore State Missing image Map of the U.S. with South Dakota highlighted Other U.S. States Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Governor Mike Rounds Official languages English Area 199,905 km² (17th)  - Land 196,735 km²  - Water 3,173 km² (1. ... State nickname: Volunteer State Other U.S. States Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Governor Phil Bredesen Official languages English Area 109,247 km² (36th)  - Land 106,846 km²  - Water 2,400 km² (2. ... Middle Tennessee is a distinct portion of the state of Tennessee, delineated according to law as well as custom. ... West Tennessee is one of the three traditional regions in the U.S. state of Tennessee. ... Marion County is a county located in the state of Tennessee. ... State nickname: Lone Star State Other U.S. States Capital Austin Largest city Houston Governor Rick Perry Official languages None. ... One of the periods of glaciation was also termed the Wisconsin glaciation. ...

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R is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Acre is a state of Brazil, located in the north_western part of the country. ... Amazonas is the largest state of Brazil, located in the northern part of the country. ... The Eastern Standard Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting five hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... For the electoral districts of the same name, see Nunavut (electoral district) and Nunavut (Senate Division). ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th)  - Land 917,741 km²  - Water 158,654 km² (14. ... This article describes the Canadian province. ... State nickname: The Constitution State Other U.S. States Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport Governor M. Jodi Rell Official languages English Area 14,371 km² (48th)  - Land 12,559 km²  - Water 1,809 km² (12. ... State nickname: The First State Other U.S. States Capital Dover Largest city Wilmington Governor Ruth Ann Minner Official languages None Area 6,452 km² (49th)  - Land 5,068 km²  - Water 1,387 km² (21. ... ... State nickname: Everglade State, Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... View of the Apalachicola River near Fort Gadsden, Florida. ... Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. ... Gulf County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. ... Categories: Stub ... State nickname: The Hoosier State Other U.S. States Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Governor Mitch Daniels Official languages English Area 94,321 km² (38th)  - Land 92,897 km²  - Water 1,424 km² (1. ... Clark County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Dearborn County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Floyd County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Harrison County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... Ohio County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... State nickname: Bluegrass State Other U.S. States Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Governor Ernie Fletcher Official languages English Area 104,749 km² (37th)  - Land 102,989 km²  - Water 1,760 km² (1. ... State nickname: The Pine Tree State Other U.S. States Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Governor John Baldacci Official languages None Area 86,542 km² (39th)  - Land 80,005 km²  - Water 11,724 km² (13. ... State nickname: Old Line State; Free State Other U.S. States Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Official languages English Area 32,160 km² (42nd)  - Land 25,338 km²  - Water 6,968 km² (21%) Population (2000)  - Population 5,296,486 (19th)  - Density 165 /km² (5th) Admittance into... State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney Official languages English Area 27,360 km² (44th)  - Land 20,317 km²  - Water 7,043 km² (25. ... State nickname: Wolverine State or Great Lakes State Other U.S. States Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Governor Jennifer Granholm Official languages English Area 250,941 km² (11th)  - Land 147,255 km²  - Water 103,687 km² (41. ... State nickname: The Granite State Other U.S. States Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Governor John Lynch Official languages English Area 24,239 km² (46th)  - Land 23,249 km²  - Water 814 km² (3. ... State nickname: The Garden State Other U.S. States Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Governor Richard Codey (acting) Official languages None defined Area 22,608 km² (47th)  - Land 19,231 km²  - Water 3,378 km² (14. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... State nickname: Tar Heel State Other U.S. States Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Governor Michael Easley Official languages English Area 139,509 km² (28th)  - Land 126,256 km²  - Water 13,227 km² (9. ... State nickname: The Buckeye State Other U.S. States Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Governor Bob Taft Official languages None Area 116,096 km² (34th)  - Land 106,154 km²  - Water 10,044 km² (8. ... State nickname: The Keystone State Other U.S. States Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Governor Ed Rendell Official languages None Area 119,283 km² (33rd)  - Land 116,074 km²  - Water 3,208 km² (2. ... State nickname: The Ocean State Other U.S. States Capital Providence Largest city Providence Governor Donald Carcieri Official languages None Area 4,005 km² (50th)  - Land 2,709 km²  - Water 1,296 km² (32. ... State nickname: Palmetto State Other U.S. States Capital Columbia Largest city Columbia Governor Mark Sanford Official languages English Area 82,965 km² (40th)  - Land 78,051 km²  - Water 4,915 km² (6%) Population (2000)  - Population 4,012,012 (26th)  - Density 51. ... State nickname: Volunteer State Other U.S. States Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Governor Phil Bredesen Official languages English Area 109,247 km² (36th)  - Land 106,846 km²  - Water 2,400 km² (2. ... East Tennessee is a name given to approximately the eastern third of the state of Tennessee. ... Marion County is a county located in the state of Tennessee. ... State nickname: The Green Mountain State Other U.S. States Capital Montpelier Largest city Burlington Governor Jim Douglas Official languages None Area 24,923 km² (45th)  - Land 23,974 km²  - Water 949 km² (3. ... State nickname: Old Dominion Other U.S. States Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Governor Mark R. Warner Official languages English Area 110,862 km² (35th)  - Land 102,642 km²  - Water 8,220 km² (7. ... State nickname: Mountain State Other U.S. States Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Governor Joe Manchin Official languages English Area 62,809 km² (41st)  - Land 62,436 km²  - Water 376 km² (0. ...

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Q is the 17th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Amazonas is the largest state of Brazil, located in the northern part of the country. ... Mato Grosso is one of the states of Brazil, located in the western part of the country. ... Mato Grosso do Sul is one of the states of Brazil, located in the western part of the country. ... Pará - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Rondônia is a state of Brazil, located in the northern-western part of the country. ... Roraima is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northern part of the country. ... The Atlantic Standard Time Zone (AST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... This article is about the region in Canada. ... Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope was restored) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Lieutenant Governor Herménégilde Chiasson Premier Bernard Lord (PC) Area 72,908 km² (8th)  - Land 71,450 km²  - Water 1,458 km² (2. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (One defends and the other conquers) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant Governor Myra A. Freeman Premier John Hamm (PC) Area 55,284 km² (12th)  - Land 53,338 km²  - Water 1,946 km² (3. ... Motto: Parva Sub Ingenti (The small under the protection of the great) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Charlottetown Largest city Charlottetown Lieutenant Governor J. Léonce Bernard Premier Pat Binns (PC) Area 5,660 km² (13th)  - Land 5,660 km²  - Water 0 km² (0%) Population (2004)  - Population 137,900 (10th... This article describes the Canadian province. ... This article describes the Canadian province. ... Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, The Land of the Greenlanders (Kalaallit); Danish: Grønland) is a self-governed Danish territory and an Arctic island nation located in North America with shores on the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. ...

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P is the 16th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... The Newfoundland Standard Time Zone (NST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting 3½ hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... This article is about the region in Canada. ... Newfoundland (French: Terre-Neuve; Irish: Talamh an Éisc; Latin: Terra Nova) is a large island off the north-east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ...

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P is the 16th letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Alagoas (AL) is a small state in northeastern Brazil lying between the states of Pernambuco and Sergipe; touching the state of Bahia along a part of its southwestern border. ... Amapá is one of the states of Brazil, located in the extreme north, bordering French Guiana in the north. ... For the genus of wildflowers in the family Asteraceae, see Bahia (Botany) Bahia is a state in the north-east of Brazil. ... Ceará is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. ... The Brazilian Federal District (in Portuguese, Distrito Federal) is set apart for Brasília, the capital of Brazil. ... For other places that have this name, see Espírito Santo (disambiguation) Espírito Santo is one of the states of southeastern Brazil, often referred to by the abbreviation ES. With its capital at Vitória. ... Goiás is a state of Brazil, located in the central part of the country. ... Maranhão is one of the states of Brazil in the north-eastern region. ... Minas Gerais is one of the states of Brazil, the second most populous in the federation. ... Pará - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Paraíba is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. ... Other meanings: Paraná, Argentina, Paraná River Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the southern part of the country, bordering Paraguay and Argentina. ... Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Brazilian Northeast. ... Piauí - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Rio de Janeiro is one of the 26 states of Brazil (plus the Federal District). ... Rio Grande do Norte is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the edge of the South American continent. ... Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... São Paulo is a state in Brazil. ... Sergipe is the smallest state of Brazil, located on the north eastern Atlantic coast of the country. ... Tocantins is one of the states of Brazil. ... Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, The Land of the Greenlanders (Kalaallit); Danish: Grønland) is a self-governed Danish territory and an Arctic island nation located in North America with shores on the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. ... Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (French Saint-Pierre et Miquelon) is a French overseas collectivity consisting of several small islands off the eastern coast of Canada near Newfoundland. ...

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O is the fifteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Fernando de Noronha is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, midway from South America to Africa, around 220 miles (354 km) away from the Brazilian coast. ... South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by Argentina as part of Tierra del Fuego province (because of that, some of the islands have also Spanish names). ...

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N is the fourteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, The Land of the Greenlanders (Kalaallit); Danish: Grønland) is a self-governed Danish territory and an Arctic island nation located in North America with shores on the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. ... Flag of Azores Shaded relief map of the Azores from 1975 The Azores (Portuguese: Açores) are an archipelago of Portuguese islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America. ...

UTC Z

Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. ... Côte dIvoire (often called Ivory Coast in English; see below about the name) is a country in West Africa. ... Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, The Land of the Greenlanders (Kalaallit); Danish: Grønland) is a self-governed Danish territory and an Arctic island nation located in North America with shores on the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. ... The Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe is a tiny two- island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, distanced 140 kilometers from one another, and situated about 250 and 225 kilometers, respectively, off the northwestern coast of Gabon. ... Canaries Capitals Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife Area  – Total  – % of Spain Ranked 13th  7 447 km²  1,5% Population  – Total (2003)  – % of Spain  – Density Ranked 8th  1 843 755  4,4%  247,58/km² Demonym  – English  – Spanish  Canary Islander  canario/a Statute of Autonomy August 16...

UTC + 1 A

The letter A is the first (1st) letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville) is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... Bandundu is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... Equateur is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... Official languages Macedonian2 Capital Skopje President Branko Crvenkovski Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski Area  – Total  – % water Ranked 145th  25,713 km²  1. ... Serbia and Montenegro  – Serbia    – Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    – Vojvodina  – Montenegro Official language Serbian Capital Podgorica Former Royal Capital Cetinje President Filip Vujanović Prime Minister Milo Đukanović Area  – Total  – % water  13,812 km²  n/a Population  – Total (2003)  – Density  616,258  48. ... Serbia and Montenegro  – Serbia    – Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    – Vojvodina  – Montenegro Official language Serbian1 Capital Belgrade Area  – Total  – % water  88,361 km²  n/a Population  – Total (2002)     (without Kosovo)  – Density  7. ... Canaries Capitals Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife Area  – Total  – % of Spain Ranked 13th  7 447 km²  1,5% Population  – Total (2003)  – % of Spain  – Density Ranked 8th  1 843 755  4,4%  247,58/km² Demonym  – English  – Spanish  Canary Islander  canario/a Statute of Autonomy August 16... Svalbard, part of the Kingdom of Norway, lies in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe. ...

UTC + 2 B

The letter B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Katanga is the southern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regional capital Lubumbashi (formerly Elizabethville). ... map of Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian: Калининградская область), informally called Yantarny kray (Russian:Янтарный Край - meaning Amber land) is an administrative division (oblast) of Russia on the Baltic coast, with no land connection to the rest of Russia: an exclave. ...

UTC + 3 C

If you were looking for the C, C++, or C# programming languages then see C programming language, C Plus Plus, or C Sharp programming language C is the third letter of the Roman alphabet. ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow  listen? ( Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskva), capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Central market and Church in Rostov. ... Novaya Zemlyas position on the map The archipelago of Novaya Zemlya (Russian: Но́вая Земля́, New Land; formerly known as Nova Zembla) consists of two major islands in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, separated by the narrow Matochkin Strait, and a number of smaller ones. ... Franz Josef Land (russ. ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Oblasts of Russia ... Ulyanovsk Oblast (Улья́новская о́бласть) is an administrative division of the Russian Federation. ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ...

UTC + 3:30 C*

If you were looking for the C, C++, or C# programming languages then see C programming language, C Plus Plus, or C Sharp programming language C is the third letter of the Roman alphabet. ...

UTC + 4 D

The letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Réunion is an island, as well as an overseas département (département doutre-mer, or DOM) of France, located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. ... Samara Oblast (Сама́рская о́бласть) is an administrative division of the Russian Federation. ... Categories: Stub | Republics of Russia ...

UTC + 4:30 D*

The letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ...

UTC + 5 E

The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ... The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkiria (Russian: Респу́блика Башкортоста́н or Башки́рия; Bashkir:) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Oblasts of Russia ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Oblasts of Russia ... The Perm Oblast (Пе́рмская о́бласть) is an oblast in the Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District of Russia. ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Oblasts of Russia ... Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russian: Свердло́вская о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in the Urals Federal District. ... Photograph of snow-covered Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburgs Church on the Blood, built on the spot where the Tsar and his family were murdered. ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Oblasts of Russia ... Ulyanovsk Oblast (Улья́новская о́бласть) is an administrative division of the Russian Federation. ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ...

UTC + 5:30 E*

  • India (IST—Indian Standard Time)

The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ...

UTC + 5:45 E‡

Nepal's time zone of UTC + 5:45 was adopted in 1986 [4] (http://www.sptimes.com/Travel97/10198/To_Every_Times__There.html). This is the nearest quarter-hour from Greenwich to the local mean time of Nepal's capital Kathmandu, which is at 85°19'E or 5:41:16. Old CIA maps, 1995 and earlier, have Nepal at 5:40, which may be their approximation of Kathmandu's local mean time. The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Local mean time is a form of solar time that corrects the variations of local apparent time. ... Kathmandu (Nepali: काठमाडौं) is the capital city of Nepal. ...


UTC + 6 F

The letter F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Categories: Stub | Krais of Russia ... The Altai Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Алта́й; Altay: Алтай Республика) is a Russian Federation (a republic). ... Novosibirsk Oblast (Новосиби́рская о́бласть) is a regional subdivision of Russia. ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Oblasts of Russia ... Tomsk Oblast (Russian: То́мская о́бласть) (2002 pop. ...

UTC + 6:30 F*

The letter F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. ...

UTC + 7 G

G is the seventh letter in the Roman alphabet. ... Kemerovo Oblast (Russian:Ке́меровская о́бласть) (pop. ... Categories: Stub | Republics of Russia ... Krasnoyarsk Krai (Красноя́рский край) (2002 pop. ... Severnaya Zemlya (Russian, Northern Land) is an archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean. ... Tomsk Oblast (Russian: То́мская о́бласть) (2002 pop. ... The Tuva Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Тыва́; Tuvan: Тыва Республика) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ...

UTC + 8 H

Note that the whole of China has the same time, which makes this time zone exceptionally wide. In the extreme west of China the sun is at its highest at 15:00, in the extreme east at 11:00. It also means that on the short (76 km) frontier with Afghanistan, the official time change is 3 hours and 30 minutes. H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Motto: Cygnis Insignis (Distinguished by its swans) Nickname: Wildflower State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Governor Premier Const. ... The Buryat Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Буря́тия; Buryat: Буряад Республика) is a Russian Federation (a republic). ... The Irkutsk Oblast, Russia is located in south-eastern Siberia in the basins of Angara, Lena and Nizhnyaya Tunguska rivers, and occupies an area of 767,900 km² (4. ...


UTC + 8:45 H‡

H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Motto: Cygnis Insignis (Distinguished by its swans) Nickname: Wildflower State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Governor Premier Const. ... Eucla is the easternmost town in Western Australia. ...

UTC + 9 I

I is the 9th letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Japan Standard Time (日本標準時 or 中央標準時) is the standard timezone in Japan that is 9 hours ahead of UTC; i. ... The Korea Standard Time (KST) is the standard timezone in South Korea and is 9 hours ahead of GMT: ie. ... The Amur Oblast (363,700 km², pop. ... Chita Oblast (Russian: Чити́нская о́бласть) (431,500 km², pop. ... The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Саха́ (Яку́тия); Yakut: Саха Республиката) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... Yakutsk (Якутск) (pop. ...

UTC + 9:30 I*

I is the 9th letter in the Latin alphabet. ... Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... Broken Hill is an isolated mining city and Local Government Area in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia, with a population of 21,000. ... Motto: None Other Australian states and territories Capital Darwin Administrator Ted Egan Chief Minister Clare Martin (ALP) Area 1,420,968 km² (3rd)  - Land 1,349,129 km²  - Water 71,839 km² (5. ... Motto: United for the Common Wealth Nickname: Festival State Other Australian states and territories Capital Adelaide Government Governor Premier Const. ...

UTC + 10 K

The eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, K comes from the Greek Κ or κ (Kappa) developed from the Semitic Kap, symbol for an open hand. ... Motto: Pro Rege, Lege et Grege (For the Queen, the Law and the People) Nickname: (none) Other Australian states and territories Capital Canberra Government Administrator Chief Minister Const. ... Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. ... Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Nickname: ? Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Government Governor Premier Const. ... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Nickname: Garden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Governor Premier Const. ... A view of Chuuk Chuuk is an island group that comprises one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), along with Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap. ... This article is about the island of Yap. ... The Primorsky Krai (Russian: Примо́рский край), also known as Primorye (Примо́рье), is one of Russias 89 federal subjects (also referred to as members of the Federation). Krai is a term used to refer to several of Russias administrative units. ... Vladivostok Train Station Vladivostok (Russian: Владивосто́к) is a city in Russia. ... Sakhalin (Russian: Сахалин), also Saghalien, 库页岛 (Ku Ye Dao, Chinese), or Karafuto (Japanese: 樺太) is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45° 50 and 54° 24 N, in East Siberia, Russia. ... Khabarovsk Krai (Хаба́ровский кра́й) (1995 pop. ... The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Саха́ (Яку́тия); Yakut: Саха Республиката) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ...

UTC + 10:30 K*

The eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, K comes from the Greek Κ or κ (Kappa) developed from the Semitic Kap, symbol for an open hand. ... Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... Lord Howe Island showing Mts Lidgbird and Gower. ...

UTC + 11 L

L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Kosrae is an island in Micronesia. ... District center of Pohnpei Map of Pohnpei Pohnpei (also spelled Ponape and earlier Bonabee) is one of the islands in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and is one of the Senyavin Islands. ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ... The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Саха́ (Яку́тия); Yakut: Саха Республиката) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ...

UTC + 11:30 L*

L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. ...

UTC + 12 M

Kwajalein, Eniwetok, and Bikini atolls in the Marshall Islands used to be on UTC−12. Kwajalein advanced 24 hours to the eastern hemisphere side of the International Date Line by skipping 21 August 1993. Eniwetok and Bikini probably advanced even earlier, when the U.S. military relinquished its control of them. [5] (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/116416799.html?did=116416799&FMT=ABS&FMTS=AI&date=Aug+22%2C+1993&desc=In+Marshall+Islands%2C+Friday+Is+Followed+by+Sunday) M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... The Gilbert Islands are a chain of 16 atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of the nation Kiribati. ... New Zealand is an independent sovereign state in the south-western Pacific Ocean. ... Chukotka Autonomous District ( Russian: Чуко́тский автоно́мный о́круг; tr. ... Kamchatka Oblast, an oblast in Russia. ... The Kuril Islands The Kuril Islands (Russian: Кури́льские острова́), also known as Kurile Islands, stretch northeast from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. ... Kwajalein Atoll - NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) Satellite Image Kwajalein Atoll is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), 2,100 nautical miles (3900 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, at 8°43′ N 167°44′ E. Kwajalein is one the worlds largest coral atolls (not by... Enewetak (or Eniwetok) is an atoll in the Marshall Islands of the central Pacific Ocean. ... Bikini Atoll - NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) Satellite Image Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an uninhabited 6. ... The Eastern Hemisphere of the Earth is a little-used concept because there is no obvious demarcation line separating it from the Western Hemisphere, to act the way the equator divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. ... Jagged red line down the right is the International Date Line The International Date Line is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth. ... August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ...


UTC + 12:45 M‡

M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... New Zealand is an independent sovereign state in the south-western Pacific Ocean. ... The Chatham Islands from space. ...

UTC + 13 M*

M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... The Phoenix Islands are a sparsely populated island chain in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands. ...

UTC + 14 M†

M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... The Line Islands are a group of mostly atolls in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands. ...

See also

  • History of standard time in the United States

Current standard time zones of the U.S. This article covers the history of standard time in the United States. ...

Bibliography

  • Bowditch, Nathaniel. American Practical Navigator. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1925, 1939, 1975.
  • Hill, John C., Thomas F. Utegaard, Gerard Riordan. Dutton's Navigation and Piloting. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1958.
  • Howse, Derek. Greenwich Time and the Discovery of the Longitude. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. ISBN 0192159488.

External links

  • Time Genie (http://www.timegenie.com/) Find the current time and date for more than 6,600 cities in 245 countries. Also includes tools for converting and comparing times.
  • World Time Server (http://www.worldtimeserver.com/)
  • The E Time zone page (http://timezones.tk) - Clock, Time and Zones - View the day and night timezone clock around the world at the E Time zone page
  • Virtual Travelog (http://www.virtualtravelog.net/entries/000031.html) A Solution for Managing Time Zones, and Dates in International Internet Systems
  • The tz database (http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm) provides specific information on the beginning and ending dates of daylight saving time for each zone and tracks time zones over the years.
  • Time around the World  (http://time.world-stay.com/en/) information about the time in locations all over the world, including daylight maps, sunrise and sunset times and free clocks that can be added to a web page

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Local mean time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (138 words)
Local mean time is a form of solar time that corrects the variations of local apparent time.
Local mean time was used from the early nineteenth century, when local solar time or sundial time was last used, until standard time was adopted on various dates in the several countries.
Standard time means that the same time is used throughout some region — usually, it was either offset from Greenwich Mean Time or was the local mean time of the capital of the region.
Time zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2846 words)
A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time.
Time zones are thus a compromise, relaxing the complex geographic dependence while still allowing local time to approximate the mean solar time.
Time zones were first proposed for the entire world by Canada's Sir Sandford Fleming in 1876 as an appendage to the single 24-hour clock he proposed for the entire world (located at the center of the Earth and not linked to any surface meridian!).
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