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GS Geography Physical Geography of World
Q.

Day and Night are equal at the:

Explanation:

ANS. (D) 
The equator receives equal day and night throughout the year because it does not tilt in relation to the sun’s location. Because of the tilted axis of the Earth, the poles and locations away from the equator lean towards or away from the sun as an orbit is completed, while the equator stays in essentially the same location relative to the sun.

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