What does Western Hemisphere mean?

Definitions for Western Hemisphere
west·ern hemi·spher·e

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. western hemisphere, occident, New Worldnoun

    the hemisphere that includes North America and South America

Wiktionary

  1. Western Hemispherenoun

    The hemisphere of the Earth to the west of the Greenwich Meridian (zero degree longitude) and east of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line).

  2. Western Hemispherenoun

    The Americas.

Wikipedia

  1. 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. The other half is called the Eastern Hemisphere. Politically, the term Western Hemisphere is often used as a metonymy for the Americas, even though geographically the hemisphere also includes parts of other continents.

ChatGPT

  1. western hemisphere

    The Western Hemisphere is a geographical term for the half of Earth which lies west of the prime meridian (0° longitude) and east of the antimeridian (180° longitude). It covers the Americas, the western portions of Europe and Africa, the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean, and a part of Antarctica.

Wikidata

  1. Western Hemisphere

    The Western Hemisphere or western hemisphere is mainly used as a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the IERS Reference Meridian and east of the Antimeridian, the other half being called the Eastern Hemisphere. In this sense, the Western Hemisphere consists of the Americas, the western portions of Europe 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. The term is often used in political rhetoric to refer to only North and South America and adjacent islands; however, the Western Hemisphere technically includes all of the aforementioned territories. 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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Western Hemisphere in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Western Hemisphere in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Western Hemisphere in a Sentence

  1. President Donald Trump:

    Today The United States is launching enhanced counternarcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to protect the American people from the deadly scourge of illegal narcotics.

  2. Irvin Feld:

    We have the largest and only sustainable herd of Asian elephants in the Western Hemisphere.

  3. John Negroponte:

    This is an opportunity to put the spotlight on issues that are important to us in Western Hemisphere, and I'm sure the administration will have some success in doing Western Hemisphere and I'm sure there will be useful meetings, useful conversations on a whole host of issues.

  4. Paul Meade:

    The risk of someone getting the flu is infinitely greater than the risk of getting coronavirus if you're cruising in the Western Hemisphere, or even to Hawaii.

  5. Marco Rubio:

    It was n’t State Department officials, State Department was n’t [ Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs ] Roberta Jacobson or John Kerry, it was National Security Council officials, you sent unqualified people to negotiate with hardened, brutal spies and representatives of tyrants... It was negotiated at a secretive level involving agencies under the complete control of the White House, as a political move …. And that mismatch is apparent in this sort of deal that was made.

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