106th meridian east

Line of longitude June 2025 106 The meridian 106° east of Greenwich is a line of longitudeWhat is longitude? https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/longitude.html oceanservice.noaa.gov 30 June 2025 en that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 106th meridian east is one of the lines of longitude used to measure angular distance east or west of the prime meridian.https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/longitude.html What is longitude? National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration October 6, 2026 The 106th meridian east forms a great circle with the 74th meridian west. From Pole to Pole Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 106th meridian east passes through: {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ! scope="col" width="130" | Co-ordinates ! scope="col" | Country, territory or sea ! scope="col" | Notes |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 90 0 N 106 0 E type:waterbody Arctic Ocean ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Arctic Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |-valign="top" | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 79 58 N 106 0 E type:waterbody Laptev Sea ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Laptev Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing just west of Starokadomsky Island, Krasnoyarsk Krai, (at 77 20 N 106 7 E type:isle Starokadomsky Island) |- | 77 26 N 106 0 E type:country Russia ! scope="row" | | Krasnoyarsk Krai |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 77 18 N 106 0 E type:waterbody Laptev Sea ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Laptev Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |-valign="top" | 77 0 N 106 0 E type:country Russia ! scope="row" | | Krasnoyarsk Krai Sakha Republic — from 67 5 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Sakha Republic Krasnoyarsk Krai — from 66 54 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Krasnoyarsk Krai Sakha Republic — from 65 4 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Sakha Republic Krasnoyarsk Krai — from 64 32 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Krasnoyarsk Krai Irkutsk Oblast — from 61 54 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Irkutsk Oblast Republic of Buryatia — from 52 12 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Buryatia (border is in Lake Baikal) |- | 50 24 N 106 0 E type:country Mongolia ! scope="row" | | |-valign="top" | 42 1 N 106 0 E type:country China ! scope="row" | | Inner Mongolia Ningxia – from 38 56 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Ningxia Gansu – for about 5 km from 35 32 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Gansu Ningxia – for about 4 km from 35 29 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Ningxia Gansu – from 35 26 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Gansu Shaanxi – from 33 36 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Shaanxi Sichuan – from 32 50 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Sichuan Chongqing – from 30 22 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Chongqing Sichuan – from 28 58 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Sichuan Guizhou – from 28 44 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Guizhou Sichuan – from 28 7 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Sichuan Guizhou – from 27 45 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Guizhou Guangxi – from 24 39 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Guangxi Yunnan – from 24 8 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Yunnan Guangxi – from 23 27 N 106 0 E type:adm1st Guangxi |- | 22 56 N 106 0 E type:country Vietnam ! scope="row" | | |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 19 58 N 106 0 E type:waterbody South China Sea ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | South China Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Gulf of Tonkin |- | 18 23 N 106 0 E type:country Vietnam ! scope="row" | | |- | 17 28 N 106 0 E type:country Laos ! scope="row" | | |- | 13 56 N 106 0 E type:country Cambodia ! scope="row" | | |- | 11 42 N 106 0 E type:country Vietnam ! scope="row" | | |- | 11 11 N 106 0 E type:country Cambodia ! scope="row" | | |- | 10 52 N 106 0 E type:country Vietnam ! scope="row" | | |-valign="top" | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 9 18 N 106 0 E type:waterbody South China Sea ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | South China Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing through the Anambas Islands, (at 3 0 N 106 0 E type:isle Anambas Islands) |- | 1 35 S 106 0 E type:country Indonesia ! scope="row" | | Islands of Bangka and Sumatra |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 3 18 S 106 0 E type:waterbody Java Sea ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Java Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |- | 5 54 S 106 0 E type:country Indonesia ! scope="row" | | Island of Java |-valign="top" | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 6 49 S 106 0 E type:waterbody Indian Ocean ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Indian Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing just east of (at 10 26 S 105 43 E type:isle Christmas Island) |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | 60 0 S 106 0 E type:waterbody Southern Ocean ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Southern Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |- | 66 14 S 106 0 E type:country Antarctica ! scope="row" | Antarctica | Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by |- |} References 3 east collapsed e106 meridian east