Question

Which areas receive the most direct sunlight: the North pole, the South pole, the temperate zone or the tropical zone?

Answer 1

Tropical Zone

Explanation:

I am working with the assumption that by direct sunlight you are referring to areas where the sunlight is striking the Earth at a 90 degree angle. In this case nothing outside of the tropics receives any direct sunlight.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Tropic-of-Cancer

You can see in the above picture that that the Tropic of Cancer is the line that marks the northernmost position that the sun's light hits the Earth at a 90 degree angle. The Tropic of Capricorn is the southernmost.

It is important to note that all parts of the Earth receive sunlight for the same duration, 50 % of the time, but sometimes the sunlight is at a very low angle.