- Land hemisphere
The land hemisphere, sometimes capitalized as the Land Hemisphere, is the hemisphere on the
Earth containing the largest possible area of land. It is centered on coord|47|13|N|1|32|W| (near the city ofNantes ,France ).cite journal |last=Boggs |first=Samuel Whittemore |year=1945 |month=December |title=This Hemisphere |journal=Journal of Geography |volume=44 |issue=9 |pages=345–355 |doi=10.1080/00221344508986498] [cite web |url=http://www.gis.psu.edu/projection/chapter4.html |title=Projecting the Hemisphere |accessdate=2007-12-14 |author=Judy M. Olson |date=1997 |work=Matching the Map Projection to the Need |publisher=American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (especially [http://www.gis.psu.edu/projection/chap4figs.html#3 Figure 4.3] )] The other half of the Earth is thewater hemisphere .The land hemisphere has seven eighths of the land on the Earth, including
Europe ,Africa ,North America , most ofAsia and most ofSouth America . Europe is at the center of the land hemisphere. However, because thearea of theocean s of the land hemisphere is still larger than its land area, the land hemisphere means the hemisphere where most land is, but not the hemisphere where the land area is bigger than the ocean area.References
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