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Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Asia and Africa.
Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the New World. The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.The term gained prominence in the early 16th century during Europe's Age of Discovery, after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci published the Latin-language pamphlet Mundus Novus, presenting his conclusion that these lands, soon ...
The name "Pangaea" is derived from Ancient Greek pan ( πᾶν, "all, entire, whole") and Gaia or Gaea ( Γαῖα, " Mother Earth, land"). [4] [9] The first to suggest that the continents were once joined and later separated may have been Abraham Ortelius in 1596. [10] The concept that the continents once formed a contiguous land mass was ...
Hemispheres of Earth. In geography and cartography, hemispheres of Earth are any division of the globe into two equal halves ( hemispheres ), typically divided into northern and southern halves by the Equator or into western and eastern halves by the Prime meridian. Hemispheres can be divided geographically or culturally, or based on religion ...
The city matched the 109-degree F mark again on Friday, while Banda, India hit 117.3 F (47.4 C). In contrast, Death Valley, California, famous for its reputation as one of the hottest places on ...
2020–2021 China–India skirmishes. 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes. Part of the Sino-Indian border dispute. A CIA map of Kashmir with red circles marking the rough locations of the conflicts near the Galwan Valley (top), Spanggur Tso and Pangong Tso (bottom). One section of the Pangong Tso-Chushul skirmish area along the LAC via NASA ...
Geographical zone. The five main latitude regions of Earth's surface comprise geographical zones, [1] divided by the major circles of latitude. The differences between them relate to climate. They are as follows: The North Frigid Zone, between the North Pole at 90° N and the Arctic Circle at 66°33′50.1″ N, covers 4.12% of Earth's surface.
Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology] [note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East ...