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This is a list of countries by westernmost point on land (dependent territories included). A selection of dependent territories are listed in italics and are not ranked. There are five countries with territory on both sides of the 180th meridian , and thus can be said to be both the westernmost and easternmost countries: Russia , New Zealand ...
List of countries by southernmost point; List of countries by easternmost point; List of countries by westernmost point; Northernmost settlements; Southernmost settlements; List of northernmost items; List of southernmost items; List of countries by highest point; List of countries by lowest point; List of elevation extremes by country
Bjargtangar (24° 31′ 55″ W) is Iceland´s Westernmost point and thus furthest west of a European country outside Greenland (which belongs to Denmark). The westernmost part of Greenland is the Carey Islands group at 72°50'W. Easternmost point. Cape Flissingsky (69° 02′ E), Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, Russia.
The easternmost and westernmost points on Earth, based on the east–west standard for describing longitude, can be found anywhere along the 180th meridian, which passes through the Arctic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans, as well as parts of Siberia (including Wrangel Island), Antarctica, and three islands of Fiji (Vanua Levu's eastern peninsula, the middle of Taveuni, and the western part of ...
In this case, the westernmost point is on Banaba Island, in Kiribati, at 169°32 ′ 13″E. The easternmost point is on Niue, a state in free association with New Zealand, at 169°52 ′ 11″W. Including only territories that are themselves directly members of the Commonwealth, the westernmost point would be on Vatoa, Fiji, at 178°15'W.
List of countries by westernmost point; List of countries by largest island; List of countries by number of islands; List of countries that border only one other country; List of countries without rivers; List of countries and territories by number of land borders; List of countries and territories by land and maritime borders
The Western Hemisphere consists of the Americas, excluding some of the Aleutian Islands to the southwest of the Alaskan mainland; the westernmost portions of Europe and Africa, both mainland and islands; the extreme eastern tip of the Russian mainland and islands (); numerous territories in Oceania; and a large portion of Antarctica.
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point. The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.