What are the eastern and western lines of longitude?
They’re actually called meridians of longitude. The prime meridian (0 degrees longitude) runs north-south in a line that goes through an observatory in Greenwich, England (about three miles southeast of London). The other meridians of longitude go east and west from there until you get to the International Date Line (180 degrees east-and-west longitude). So North and South America have the western meridians of longitude running through them, and most of Europe and Africa, plus all of Asia, have the eastern merdians of longitude running through them.
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