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-as of [30 MARCH 2024]–
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*aka “the new world”*
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-the ‘western hemisphere’ is a ‘geo-graphical term’ for the half of the earth which lies west of the ‘prime meridian’ (which crosses ‘greenwich / UK) + east of the ‘anti-meridian’-
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(the other half is called the “eastern hemisphere”)
(in this sense, the ‘western hemisphere’ consists of the ‘americas’, the western portions of ‘eurasia’ and ‘africa’, the extreme eastern tip of ‘russia’, numerous territories in ‘oceania’, and a portion of ‘antarctica’, while excluding some of the ‘aleutian islands’ to the southwest of the “alaskan mainland”)
(in an effort to define the ‘western hemisphere’ as the parts of the world which are not part of the ‘old world’, there also exist projections which use the ’20th meridian west’ and the diametrically opposed ‘160th meridian east’ to define the ‘hemisphere’)
(this projection excludes the ‘european’ and ‘african’ mainlands and a small portion of northeast ‘greenland’, but includes more of ‘eastern russia’ and ‘oceania’)
(the center of the ‘western hemisphere’ is located in the ‘pacific ocean’ at the intersection of the ’90th meridian west’ and the equator very close to the ‘galápagos’)
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(the highest mountain in the ‘western hemisphere’ is ‘aconcagua’ in the ‘andes’ of ‘argentina’ at 6,960.8 metres (22,837 ft))
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥