you’re thinking geographic west and east. what other definitions exist for west and east?
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8oow3291d@feddit.dk 6 hours agoHow exactly were the names “East Antarctica” and “West Antarctica” in that map decided? What does “East” and “West” mean at the South Pole?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Under the US’s political sphere of influence vs China’s?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
whose map is this? does the chinese map use different words?
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 50 minutes ago
I googled it: Image
Anything between lines of longitude 0° - 180° (0° is britain GMT, 180° is opposite side of earth) is EAST.
Anything between 180° to 0 (AKA 360°) is WEST.
Thus you have a western hemisphere, which i guess is just tthe americas and british Isles, and an eastern hemisphere, which i guess is most of afroeurasia and australia. This is just about the only way it could’ve worked, but as for where 0 and 180 went, it’s just arbitrary.
I would’ve defined the Levant as the boundary between east and west hemisphere, instead.