How many minutes are there in 1 degree?

A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle, defined so that a full rotation is 360 degrees.

There are two entirely different kinds of "minute" or "second", and you have to be careful not to confuse them. In each case, they are 1/60 of some larger unit. When we measure time, we divide each HOUR into 60 equal parts called "minutes", and each minute into 60 equal "seconds".

We also do the same thing when we measure angles, so that each DEGREE is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute OF ANGLE is divided into 60 seconds. The units are different; an hour is not the same as a degree in any sense, and their relationship has nothing to do with the angle corresponding to a minute on a clock, or in the earth's rotation.