Interesting it says roughly 80/20 split of land, but it includes Antarctica as land. I wonder what percent of the world population is on land hemisphere? Probably like 95%.
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I don't even know how populated the southern cone is, I mostly think of ranches and windswept shores. The water hemisphere might be almost entirely Australia and Indonesia by population.
It's also interesting to note that the pole of the land hemisphere is in France, where the enlightenment and the modern world got it's start. I'm pretty sure that's a coincidence though, it's no historical crossroads when you factor in the surrounding oceans, deserts and ice caps.