It's easternmost relative to both. But why would that even need to be specified? If you understand what easternmost means, then the answer is correct regardless of what reference point you're using.
I think it would help people like me if it were specified. As it happens, I did not understand what easternmost meant in this context, and I am obviously not the only one.
The problem is that Auckland is only easternmost on certain maps. If you are using a globe, there is no such thing as eastern most. Every city has a city east of it. Hawaii is east of New Zealand. Mexico is east of Hawaii. Egypt is east of Mexico. Thailand is east of Egypt. Auckland is east of Thailand, and it goes on forever.
Which popular internationally recognized map are you using that has the easternmost edge somewhere other than the international date line? Oh? There is no such map? You're just being pedantic prats? Oh, alright then. Proceed.
I don't know what's the qualification for 'popular internationally recognised', but a few pacific-centred World maps could be example. Commonly in use in East Asia and showing that somewhere other than New Zealand can be easternmost on maps, though the centrepoint line may be arbitrary. (But again, how subjective was the prime meridian to begin with anyways).
While I do agree with the premise that East relative to the Prime Meridian is the commonly accepted East, a little addition can't hurt.
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Kal this is ONE time that I have to disagree with you. A map of any kind is only a flat, one dimensional representation of the earth with a beginning and an end. Since the earth is a sphere, you can always go farther east unless there is a predetermined point at which you are no longer going in an easterly direction. Your argument about the largest US state is sort of unrelated because you are talking about a particular set of things with a known, limited number - 50 and because they are all of a different size they can be arranged from smallest to largest the only requirement for that to be done is that each state must be larger than the one before it. On the planet earth what has been determined to be the point at which east ends and west begins? I'm not saying that you are wrong. I'm just pointing out that there is more than one way to look at it - determined by what data and information you have to work with.
I understand what a sphere is. But again, show me a representation of Earth with an easternmost edge (the only representations that would be relevant to the discussion, so globes are immediately disqualified), that is widely produced and popularly used around the world, where the easternmost edge is something other than the International Date Line.
With the globe argument, I'd ask how do you determine your position on the globe? My guess is you'd use longitude and lattitude coordinates, which do contain east and west references. :)
I'm not talking about a globe or a map or a representation of any kind. I'm talking about the earth. The question only asks what is the easternmost city. All I'm saying is that without something to measure easternmost from there is no end to east or west. If you are in Auckland and you sail into the sunrise, what direction are you going? It isn't like the North Pole where everything else is south of there - the Pole is a fixed point of reference. There is no natural law that dictates east and west.
Weird, I have never come across the word "grok" until today, and have now seen it twice in the space of 20mins, here in the comments, and also as an answer to a quiz on here!!
When taking the quiz, my thoughts were Sudan and Serbia due to loss of territory. I did some research to try to prove you wrong, but I think you are right.
USSR= United Soviet Socialist Republics.. I suppose tho you would then say that The United States of America are all separate right? so Ohio, is a different country than Indiana?
This hint actually threw me off completely, I was thinking of Brazil and then Madagascar. Java has no relation to coffee for me, but I think it's a USA slang thing.
The frame of reference is defined by the global lines of longitude, agreed upon everywhere that I can think of. If you learned something new on this quiz, that's great! I don't see how you not knowing what East means is an argument for changing a perfectly valid question.
There is a line. It may be an artificial line but the line is present. Everybody knows it and it is the standard the world uses. Hawaii is not east of the phillipines. It is west but it is faster to go round the east
Taking the quiz again nearly six years later, I was able to get the correct answer to the question with only a brief pause to consider. Not sure why I had a hard time with it back in 2018, but at least I wasn't the only one.
It is its own city AND it is part of Tokyo metropolitan area. To make it more clear, the question could be changed to "Which city that is part of Tokyo metropolitan area has 3.7 million people?"
many former USSR countries saw a collapse in their population due to 1) very low fertility rates and 2) decreasing living standarts, as economies were brutally liberalized, which 3) fueled emigration
Easternmost city in relation to what? To the international date line? Prime meridian? In NZ? In Africa? It needs a point of reference in order for it to make any sense. English language and geography basics 101.
What do you mean? Largest relative to Delaware? Or largest relative to Virginia?
It doesn't matter... largest is largest...
While I do agree with the premise that East relative to the Prime Meridian is the commonly accepted East, a little addition can't hurt.
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I don't think that hint is needed to be honest