• 21 places
  • Checked September 2026

Map of World with Hemispheres

The world cut in half four ways, with the lines that cut it.

Map of World with Hemispheres

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Write the name of each numbered place.Answer key

  1. Northern Hemisphere
  2. Southern Hemisphere
  3. Western Hemisphere
  4. Eastern Hemisphere
  5. Equator
  6. Prime meridian
  7. 180th meridian
  8. North Pole
  9. South Pole
  10. North America
  11. South America
  12. Europe
  13. Africa
  14. Asia
  15. Australia
  16. Antarctica
  17. Pacific Ocean
  18. Atlantic Ocean
  19. Indian Ocean
  20. Arctic Ocean
  21. Southern Ocean

Drawn for this site on 2026-09-29 with d3-geo from Natural Earth public-domain data. Licence: public domain map data; drawing own work.

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The four hemispheres 4

  1. Northern Hemisphere It holds about two thirds of the land. It also holds about 90 in 100 people.
  2. Southern Hemisphere South America, Australia, Antarctica and southern Africa are here.
  3. Western Hemisphere North and South America are all in it.
  4. Eastern Hemisphere Most of Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia are in it.

Lines and poles 5

  1. Equator It is 0 degrees latitude and splits north from south.
  2. Prime meridian It is 0 degrees longitude and splits east from west.
  3. 180th meridian With the prime meridian it makes the east and west split. The International Date Line mostly follows it.
  4. North Pole Every meridian meets here.
  5. South Pole Every meridian meets here too.

Continents 7

  1. North America All of it is in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
  2. South America It is in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern.
  3. Europe Here it is cut from Asia near the Ural Mountains. That is at about 60 degrees east.
  4. Africa It is the only continent in all four hemispheres.
  5. Asia The largest continent by area and by people.
  6. Australia All of it is in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres.
  7. Antarctica It lies in the Southern Hemisphere, around the South Pole.

Oceans 5

  1. Pacific Ocean This flat map splits it between the left and right edges.
  2. Atlantic Ocean The prime meridian runs down its eastern side.
  3. Indian Ocean Almost all of it is in the Eastern Hemisphere.
  4. Arctic Ocean The smallest of the five oceans.
  5. Southern Ocean It circles the world around Antarctica.

How this list was compiled: The four hemispheres and their dividing lines checked on 2026-09-29 against National Geographic Education, Hemisphere (Northern and Southern Hemispheres between the poles and the Equator; Eastern and Western between the prime meridian and the International Date Line at roughly 180 degrees), https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/hemisphere/, and Wikipedia, Hemispheres of Earth (the 180th meridian; which continents and oceans each half holds; the Northern Hemisphere holds about 68 percent of the land and about 90 percent of the people), text only. Land: Natural Earth 1:110m countries, merged by continent; oceans: Natural Earth 1:50m marine polygons; both public domain, naturalearthdata.com. Licence: public domain map data; drawing own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-09-29 with d3-geo from Natural Earth public-domain data. Licence: public domain map data; drawing own work

How it works

The equator cuts the world into a Northern and a Southern Hemisphere. The prime meridian and the 180th meridian cut it into a Western and an Eastern one. The top map shows the lines; the globes below show each half.

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Lines first, then the halves

Find the equator and the prime meridian on the flat map: they are the two bold lines. The dashed line at both edges is the 180th meridian. Then look at the globes: each shows one half, and the poles are the dots in the middle of the top two. Last, find the seven continents and the five oceans.

  • Africa is the only continent in all four hemispheres: the equator and the prime meridian both cross it.

Questions and answers

What are the four hemispheres of the world?

Northern and Southern, split by the equator, and Eastern and Western, split by the prime meridian and the 180th meridian. Every place is in one of each pair, so it lies in two hemispheres at once.

What is the difference between the equator and the prime meridian?

The equator runs east and west around the middle of the Earth, at 0 degrees latitude, and splits north from south. The prime meridian runs from pole to pole through Greenwich, England, at 0 degrees longitude, and splits east from west.

Which hemispheres is the United States in?

The Northern and the Western Hemispheres. All of North America lies north of the equator and west of the prime meridian.

Which hemisphere has more land and people?

The Northern Hemisphere. It holds about two thirds of Earth's land and about nine in ten of its people. The Southern Hemisphere is mostly ocean.

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