81st meridian east

The meridian 81° 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.

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81st meridian east

The 81st meridian east forms a great circle with the 99th meridian west.

From Pole to Pole

Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 81st meridian east passes through:

Co-ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes
90°0′N 81°0′E Arctic Ocean
81°7′N 81°0′E Kara Sea
73°34′N 81°0′E  Russia Krasnoyarsk Krai
72°24′N 81°0′E Yenisei Gulf
71°56′N 81°0′E  Russia Krasnoyarsk Krai
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug — from 69°12′N 81°0′E
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — from 63°9′N 81°0′E
Tomsk Oblast — from 60°46′N 81°0′E
Novosibirsk Oblast — from 56°31′N 81°0′E
Altai Krai — from 54°17′N 81°0′E
51°12′N 81°0′E  Kazakhstan
45°10′N 81°0′E  People's Republic of China Xinjiang
Tibet — from 35°19′N 81°0′E
30°16′N 81°0′E  India Uttarakhand — for about 7 km
30°12′N 81°0′E    Nepal
28°27′N 81°0′E  India Uttar Pradesh, passing just east of Lucknow at 26°51′N 80°57′E
Madhya Pradesh — from 24°56′N 81°0′E
Chhattisgarh — from 22°7′N 81°0′E
Telangana — from 17°53′N 81°0′E
Andhra Pradesh — from 17°11′N 81°0′E
15°44′N 81°0′E Indian Ocean Bay of Bengal
8°56′N 81°0′E  Sri Lanka
6°6′N 81°0′E Indian Ocean
60°0′S 81°0′E Southern Ocean
67°52′S 81°0′E Antarctica Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by  Australia

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