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• Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unless you stand perfectly at the south pr perfectly at the north point of either pole, there will always be an east and a west.

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  • 8oow3291d@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes - but you can choose any point to stand on. So all arbitrary separations in to “East” and “West” are equally valid.

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    • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      We shall have the compass decide, good sir! We are but mere mortals!

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I googled it: Image

  Anything between lines of longitude 0° - 180° (0° is britain GMT, 180° is opposite side of earth) is EAST.

  Anything between 180° to 0 (AKA 360°) is WEST.

  Thus you have a western hemisphere, which i guess is just tthe americas and british Isles, and an eastern hemisphere, which i guess is most of afroeurasia and australia. This is just about the only way it could’ve worked, but as for where 0 and 180 went, it’s just arbitrary.

  I would’ve defined the Levant as the boundary between east and west hemisphere, instead.

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• sik0fewl@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same as now. European influence.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  you’re thinking geographic west and east. what other definitions exist for west and east?

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  • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Under the US’s political sphere of influence vs China’s?

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      whose map is this? does the chinese map use different words?

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