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 | This article may be confusing or unclear to readers. In particular, much of the current article is anachronic. This subject needs a more historical perspective ; the notion of Western Hemisphere is tightly linked to the widespread use of double-hemisphere world maps in the 17th to 19th centuries and in this sense very similar in meaning to the New World. Also, the Greenwhich meridian was only standard from 1884 onwards. Essentially all double-hemisphere maps use a partition of hemispheres around what is now the 20th meridian west, with most using that longitude as the prime meridian. (January 2025) |
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 "New World", even though geographically the hemisphere also includes parts of other continents.[12]
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- ^ Western Hemisphere Archived 2020-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, United States Department of Agriculture.
- ^ Western Hemisphere Archived 2020-06-21 at the Wayback Machine, United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
- ^ Western Hemisphere Archived 2020-04-05 at the Wayback Machine, Fulbright Program.
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