- China is the largest country with just a single time zone . China follows a single time zone of UTC+08:00 , even though China spans almost five geographical time zones. In the past China did have 5 time zones, but a single time zone was adopted in 1940s.
- This has some interesting consequences like:
- The border between Afghanistan and China has the largest time change for any land border. Afghanistan follows UTC+4:30, while China follows UTC+08:00. This leads to a difference of 3.5 hours on crossing the border
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- India with an east-west length of 2933kms has just one time zone ( IST, UTC+5:30). There has been proposals for having 2-3 time zones. In the past there were multiple timezones
- DST seems to have been used during wars.
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- Mongolia Smallest contiguous country with multiple time zones
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- Federated States of Micronesia has an area of just 702 sq kms, but has two times zones UTC+10 and +11. This is because this island country consists of small islands spread over a large area (2700kms long) , Hence even though it is only 702 sq kms in area, it has the 14th largest EEZ
- Kiribati has 3 time zones UTC+12, +13 and +14 even though it is just 811 sq kms in area. This is because the islands are spread across a large area
- It has the most advanced time zone UTC+14
- It is the only country spread over all the 4 hemispheres
- Papua New Guinea has two time zones
- Democratic Republic of the Congo has two time zones
- Kazakhstan has two time zones
- Indonesia has 3 time zones
- Nepal follows UTC +5:45. The only country which follows quarter hour precision. There are couple of other time zones with quarter hour precision
- Greenland has 4 time zones ( from wiki )
- UTC−04:00 — Thule Air Base in Greenland
- UTC−03:00 — most of Greenland, including inhabited south coast and west coast
- UTC−01:00 — Ittoqqortoormiit and surrounding area in Greenland's Tunu county
- UTC±00:00 — Danmarkshavn weather station and surrounding area in Greenland's Tunu county, Faroe Islands
- Chile has 3 time zones
- Mexico has 4 time zones
- France has the most number of time zones ( due to its colonial past ) - 12/13
- USA 11 time , but this is due to its possessions in Pacific etc
- Russia has 11 time zones, out of these 10 are contiguous Kaliningrad_Oblast which is an exclave of Russia
- Sri Lanka seems to have changed their time zone many times Sri_Lanka_Standard_Time
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