The meridian 120° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, Australia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. In mean solar time this offset is the UTC+08:00 time zone.
The 120th meridian east forms a great circle with the 60th meridian west.
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 120th meridian east passes through:
Co-ordinates | Country, territory or sea | Notes |
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90°0′N 120°0′E / 90.000°N 120.000°E | Arctic Ocean | |
78°22′N 120°0′E / 78.367°N 120.000°E | Laptev Sea | |
73°10′N 120°0′E / 73.167°N 120.000°E | Russia | Sakha Republic Amur Oblast — from 56°55′N 120°0′E / 56.917°N 120.000°E Zabaykalsky Krai — from 56°30′N 120°0′E / 56.500°N 120.000°E |
51°31′N 120°0′E / 51.517°N 120.000°E | People's Republic of China | Inner Mongolia Liaoning – from 41°42′N 120°0′E / 41.700°N 120.000°E |
40°4′N 120°0′E / 40.067°N 120.000°E | Bohai Sea | |
37°25′N 120°0′E / 37.417°N 120.000°E | People's Republic of China | Shandong (Shandong Peninsula) |
35°43′N 120°0′E / 35.717°N 120.000°E | Yellow Sea | |
34°26′N 120°0′E / 34.433°N 120.000°E | People's Republic of China | Jiangsu Zhejiang – from 31°1′N 120°0′E / 31.017°N 120.000°E, passing just west of Hangzhou (at 30°15′N 120°10′E / 30.250°N 120.167°E) Fujian – from 27°19′N 120°0′E / 27.317°N 120.000°E |
26°36′N 120°0′E / 26.600°N 120.000°E | East China Sea | |
25°23′N 120°0′E / 25.383°N 120.000°E | South China Sea | Passing through the Taiwan Strait, just west of the island of Taiwan, Republic of China (at 23°5′N 120°2′E / 23.083°N 120.033°E) |
16°20′N 120°0′E / 16.333°N 120.000°E | Philippines | Islands of Cabarruyan and Luzon |
15°17′N 120°0′E / 15.283°N 120.000°E | South China Sea | Passing just west of the Lubang Islands, Philippines (at 13°53′N 120°1′E / 13.883°N 120.017°E) |
12°16′N 120°0′E / 12.267°N 120.000°E | Philippines | Islands of Busuanga and Culion |
11°41′N 120°0′E / 11.683°N 120.000°E | Sulu Sea | |
10°34′N 120°0′E / 10.567°N 120.000°E | Philippines | Island of Dumaran |
10°33′N 120°0′E / 10.550°N 120.000°E | Sulu Sea | Passing through Tubbataha Reef, Philippines (at 8°55′N 120°0′E / 8.917°N 120.000°E) |
5°56′N 120°0′E / 5.933°N 120.000°E | Philippines | Island of Laparan |
5°52′N 120°0′E / 5.867°N 120.000°E | Sulu Sea | |
5°14′N 120°0′E / 5.233°N 120.000°E | Philippines | Islands of Tawi-Tawi and Bilatan |
4°57′N 120°0′E / 4.950°N 120.000°E | Celebes Sea | |
1°12′N 120°0′E / 1.200°N 120.000°E | Makassar Strait | |
0°29′N 120°0′E / 0.483°N 120.000°E | Indonesia | Island of Sulawesi |
5°34′S 120°0′E / 5.567°S 120.000°E | Flores Sea | |
8°27′S 120°0′E / 8.450°S 120.000°E | Indonesia | Island of Flores |
8°49′S 120°0′E / 8.817°S 120.000°E | Sumba Strait | |
9°22′S 120°0′E / 9.367°S 120.000°E | Indonesia | Island of Sumba |
10°2′S 120°0′E / 10.033°S 120.000°E | Indian Ocean | |
19°56′S 120°0′E / 19.933°S 120.000°E | Australia | Western Australia |
33°56′S 120°0′E / 33.933°S 120.000°E | Indian Ocean | Australian authorities consider this to be part of the Southern Ocean[1][2] |
60°0′S 120°0′E / 60.000°S 120.000°E | Southern Ocean | |
66°52′S 120°0′E / 66.867°S 120.000°E | Antarctica | Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by Australia |