Countries Having the Most Time Zones

Time zone is noted in the places where there is uniform territory, it is observed for cultural, legal and social purposes. It is important to keep in check the times of different areas of the world, so Time Zone is helpful here regarding that. It can allow a specific place to have the same time all over, except the fact that how greater in size that is, and it also doesn’t matter if the timing of the setting of the sun is different in different regions of that specific place. We can differentiate different time zones from one another based on the timeline called UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). The time zone ranges from UTC -12 to UTC +12; it is because there are 24 hours in a day. 

 Commonly the time zones of different territories, states and countries are the decrement or increment of the whole numbers. But that is not a fast and hard rule to be considered. Let’s see two regions that are different from culture but do not contain much distance of combined longitude between them, then, in that case, the time would not be in full hours offset; instead it would be a half hour offset. For Instance, India contains UTC +5:30 as the standard time zone. 

France is said to be the Top in ranking containing around 12 time zones. It may look like little inexplicable to know that a small country like France contains twelve Time Zones, but it has many overseas territories on the other hand. The time in those territories has a range from UTC -12 to UTC +12. 

There are total 11 time zones in the United States, which puts it in second place. Out of 11, six are for the Hawaii and Mainland USA, while the rest are for American Samoa, Puerto Rico and other territories. In Ranking it is above from Russia, as it contains two unofficial time zones too.