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The division of Earth by the Equator and the prime meridian Map roughly depicting the Eastern and Western hemispheres. In geography and cartography, hemispheres of Earth are any division of the globe into two equal halves (hemispheres), typically divided into northern and southern halves by the Equator and into western and eastern halves by the Prime meridian.
In normal aspect, these map regularly-spaced meridians to equally spaced vertical lines, and parallels to horizontal lines. Pseudocylindrical In normal aspect, these map the central meridian and parallels as straight lines. Other meridians are curves (or possibly straight from pole to equator), regularly spaced along parallels. Conic
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
6,944 × 4,432 (7.28 MB) Janwillemvanaalst: Added additional regional labels, a few more places, and renamed the capital of Kazakhstan from Astana to Nur-Sultan. 07:03, 19 September 2020: 6,944 × 4,432 (7.23 MB) Janwillemvanaalst: Added ocean water region labels and trench depths in m, as well as some extra mountain peaks. 06:00, 9 September 2020
Antarctica is not a country, but Norway (which claims territory touching the meridian) is. 14:51, 29 July 2021: 853 × 433 (187 KB) JoKalliauer: thicker lines, smaller border: 19:15, 18 August 2016: 940 × 477 (1.64 MB) Certes: Move meridian. Base map is centred on about 15E rather than 0 meridian, so 0 meridian appears curved. Change is most ...
Image:BlankMap-World.png – World map, Robinson projection centered on the meridian circa 11°15' to east from the Greenwich Prime Meridian. Microstates and island nations are generally represented by single or few pixels approximate to the capital; all territories indicated in the UN listing of territories and regions are exhibited. Quite ...
Prior to the global adoption of standard time, numerous prime meridians were decreed by various countries where time was defined by local noon (thereby, local). The centre of the Eastern Hemisphere is located in the Indian Ocean at the intersection of the equator and the 90th meridian east, 910 km west of Indonesia in the Ninety East Ridge.
The 45×90 points are the four points on Earth which are both halfway between one of the geographical poles and the equator, and halfway between the Prime Meridian and the 180th meridian. Both northern 45×90 points are located on land, while both southern 45×90 points are in remote open ocean locations.