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Asia has the most time zones, ranging from UTC+02:00 in Turkey (two hours ahead of UTC or GMT) to UTC+12:00 in the easternmost part of Russia. That's 11 primary time zones.

In addition, Asia has four time zones that are half an hour off from the rest of the world:

  • Iran is UTC+03:30
  • Afghanistan is UTC+04:30
  • India is UTC+05:30
  • Burma (Myanmar) is UTC+06:30

All in all, Asia has 15 different time zones.

Europe has only 4, Australia has 4 (including a small rural area that is UTC+08:45), Africa has 4, South America has 4 (including UTC-04:30 in Venezuela).

North America has 9 (if you include UTC-03:30 in part of Newfoundland, UTC-03:00 on the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, and UTC-10:00 in Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska). If you include Greenland as part of North America, then North America stretches across 11 primary time zones, from UTC+00:00 to UTC-10:00, but no part of North America actually observes UTC-02:00 as its standard time zone.
(There are no time zones in Antarctica.)

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