Not even close. The American continents are approximately the same size as the Atlantic Ocean.
The Pacific actually contains it’s own antipodal point: it is literally half the globe: a hemisphere.
Or to put it another way. The Americas span approximately five time zones. That’s 75°, let’s be generous and say six to get a nice even 90°. That’s one quarter.
Peanuts. There’s an entire hemisphere of earth named after one guy
Kanye West?
Nah, Peter North
Admiral William North
Amerigo Vespucci
America isn’t a hemisphere
No, bit the vast majority of all the land in the western hemisphere is called America.
Plus or minus some uninhabited ocean it (as in the two continents) comes very close.
Simon Weston?
Mr Pacific Ocean?
Because the other hemisphere is full of imperialists sitting up the place.
America
Yeah, I got the reference. Not an entire hemisphere, that’s just ameri-centrism.
An approximate hemisphere of land
Not even close. The American continents are approximately the same size as the Atlantic Ocean.
The Pacific actually contains it’s own antipodal point: it is literally half the globe: a hemisphere.
Or to put it another way. The Americas span approximately five time zones. That’s 75°, let’s be generous and say six to get a nice even 90°. That’s one quarter.
Also to add on to that, the americas make up about 28% of earth’s land mass.