Western Hemisphere

See also: western hemisphere

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Western Hemisphere

  2. The hemisphere in Earth to the west of the Greenwich meridian (zero degree longitude) and east of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line), containing the Americas and a small part of eastern Russia.
  3. (US, metonymic) The Americas.

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