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Three. (Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere and Land Hemisphere.)

"The Hemispheres of the Earth in geography and cartography refer to any bipartite division of the globe into a hemisphere (from Ancient Greek - misphairion meaning "half of a sphere").

Division of the Earth by the equator and prime meridian.

The most common such divisions are by latitudinal or longitudinal markers:

  • North-South
    • Northern Hemisphere, the half that is north of the equator
    • Southern Hemisphere, the half that lies south of the equator
  • East-West
    • Eastern Hemisphere, the half that is east of the prime meridian and west of 180° longitude
    • Western Hemisphere, the half that lies west of the prime meridian and east of 180° longitude

The East-West division can also be seen in a cultural sense -- the cultural hemispheres.

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-Water
    • Land hemisphere, the hemisphere on the Earth containing the largest possible area of land
    • Water hemisphere, the hemisphere on the Earth containing the largest area of water" (Wiki)
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