So. Depending on where you are in the world there is a geologically direction. The Eastern Hemosphere. The Western Hemosphere. The middle east. So on so on. So what I wanna know is what exactly do these places start? Like where is the center? I know country to country it will be different. Like Texas is the Midwest in America but I’m sure it’s not the Midwest of the planet. Where do these places start geologically? Specifically for Earth and the US.
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For north and south the center is the equator, the midpoint between the two poles – and the poles are the points around which the earth rotates.
There’s no natural centerpoint for west and east though, so this one is pretty much made up – for stuff like “the middle east” it’s based on Europe. Asia was the far east and the thing in the middle was, well, Middle east.
The eastern and western hemispheres are based on the Greenwich meridian, which is again a made up centerpoints that goes trough an old observatory near London. Everything west of that point is the western hemisphere and the same for east.
For the US it’s simply based on the middle of the country.
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