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2. Western Hemisphere - Wikipedia

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   The Western Hemisphere. The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian —which crosses Greenwich, London, England —and east of the 180th meridian. [1][2] The other half is called the Eastern Hemisphere. Geo-politically, the term Western Hemisphere is often used as a metonym for the Americas or the ...

3. Wikipedia:Blank maps - Wikipedia

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   These are azimuthal orthographic projections of the Earth from four sides plus the poles. 726x726 pixels, aliased. XCFs have separate layers for water, land, coastlines, political borders, political borders over water (not shown in PNGs), and latitude & longitude gridlines (not shown in PNGs). Image:Blankmap-ao-000 -africa europe.png XCF.

4. Hemispheres of Earth - Wikipedia

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   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. Hemispheres can be divided geographically or culturally, or based on religion or prominent geographic ...

5. Americas - Wikipedia

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   [8] [9] [10] The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. [5] Along with their associated islands, the Americas cover 8% of Earth's total surface area and 28.4% of its land area. The topography is dominated by the American Cordillera, a long chain of mountains that runs the length of the west ...

6. Land and water hemispheres - Wikipedia

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   The centre of the water hemisphere is the antipode of the centre of the land hemisphere, and is therefore located at (near New Zealand's Bounty Islands in the Pacific Ocean An alternative assignment determines the centre of the land hemisphere to be at 47°24′42″N 2°37′15″W  /  47.411667°N 2.620833°W  / 47.411667; -2.620833 ...

7. New World - Wikipedia

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   Some maps, e.g., the 1506 Contarini–Rosselli map and the 1508 Johannes Ruysch map, bowing to Ptolemaic authority and Columbus's assertions, have the northern Asian landmass stretching well into the western hemisphere and merging with known North America, Labrador, Newfoundland, etc. These maps place the island of Japan near Cuba and leave the ...