geography
Most continents sit comfortably in one or two of Earth's hemispheres, but one landmass manages to straddle every division mapmakers use.
Africa lies in all four hemispheres because it is crossed by both the equator, dividing north from south, and the prime meridian, dividing east from west, placing parts of the continent on every side of both lines at once.
Asia sits almost entirely in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres, and South America mostly in the Southern and Western, neither straddles all four the way Africa's unique position allows.
A traveler could stand at points along Africa's coast and be simultaneously in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres depending on exactly where the equator crosses, a quirk unique among continents.
geography
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