Hemispheres of the Earth

Hemispheres of the Earth in geography and cartography refer to any bipartite division of the globe into hemispheres. The most common such divisions are by latitudinal or longitudinal markers:

• Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere
• Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere

However, other schemes have sought to divide the planet in a way that maximizes the preponderance of one geographic feature or another in each division:

• Land hemisphere and Water hemisphere

See also

• East–West dichotomy