Today, at 11:15 UTC (15:15 Yerevan time), about 99% of the world’s population will be in sunlight at the same time.
Levon Azizyan, director of the “Hydrometeorology and Monitoring Center” SNOC, writes about this on his social network page.
“This is a unique astronomical phenomenon that occurs every year on July 8, when, due to a combination of the position of the Sun relative to the Earth and the geographical distribution of the population, almost all of humanity is in the illuminated hemisphere,” the post reads.
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