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The sun will set in which city last chicago paris london new york

Answer 1

Further explanation

Manhattanhenge - sometimes called Manhattan Solstice - is a phenomenon that occurs twice a year, when the sun sets parallel to the east-west road according to the main road layout in the boroughs of Manhattan in New York City. This neologism was adopted from Stonehenge, when the sun was parallel to the rocks there at the summer solstice with similar dramatic effects. This word was popularized in 2002 by Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist of the American Museum of Natural History. This term applies to roads that are part of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which are laid out by the 29.0 degree rule of the original east-west radiance (this 29.0 is added to the true east and west stretch, so the west benchmark is around 299, 0 degrees). During Manhattanhenge, an observer on one of the east-west roads will see the sunset right above New Jersey and in the middle of a stretch of road.

The same phenomenon occurs in other cities with a uniform road layout. This event would clash with the spring and autumn equinoxes only if the roadwork was set right north-south and east-west, and perfectly aligned with true north, not magnetic north. The phenomenon in Baltimore, Maryland is almost the same; the sun rises parallel March 25 and September 18 and the sun sets March 12 and September 29. In Chicago, Illinois, the sun sets parallel to the layout of the road on September 25 and is nicknamed Chicagohenge. In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the sun sets parallel to the east-west road on October 25 and February 16 and is dubbed Torontohenge. In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Montrealhenge also occurs every year on July 12.

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Answer 2

According to the way we count time on the round planet on which we live, the sun would set last in Chicago.  Of the cities mentioned, it's the furthest west from the International Date Line.  The International Date Line was decided in 1884 as the line between days on the 24-hour cycle of the globe.  The Date Line runs north and south through the middle of the Pacific Ocean.  So the sun would be rising and setting first in Paris, then London, then New York, then Chicago as you move from east to west in regard to the cities mentioned.

Bear in mind, the place on the map where we established the International Date Line was a choice.  If we had set it in the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Pacific, that would change the perspective on what time it was where!