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2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which country sets a team of experts to re-measure height of Mount Everest?
A
India
B
Cambodia
C
Nepal
D
Malaysia
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The world’s highest peak is now taller by 86 centimetres, Nepal and China jointly announced on Tuesday after they remeasured Mt. Everest at 8,848.86 metres, over six decades after India conducted the previous measurement in 1954. The revised height of Mt.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nepal and China, the two countries that share a border on Mount Everest, announced a new official measurement of the mountain’s height on Tuesday: 8,848.86 meters, or 29,031.69 feet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sikdar calculated the exact height of Mt Everest in 1852. George Everest retired in 1843 but his successor, Colonel Andrew Scott Waugh, named the peak after the man who initiated the survey.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indian mathematician and surveyor Radhanath Sikdar was probably the first person to identify that Mount Everest (then known as peak XV) was the world’s highest peak as he was the first person to calculate the height of the mountain in 1852. However it was officially announced in March 1856.

Detailed explanation-5: -Because geographers placed a receiver tower near the top of Everest, they were able to get a more precise measure of its height. And even that is an approximation.

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