Western Hemisphere

collective term for the Americas and Oceania

the half of Earth which lies west of the prime meridian and east of the antimeridian

thumb|Residents of Uelen, 1913 thumb|383x383px|Uelen Orthodox church, August 2018 Uelen is a rural locality (a selo) in Chukotsky District, just south of the Arctic Circle in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in the Russian Far East. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 720. Located near Cape Dezhnev where the Bering Sea meets the Chukchi Sea, it is the easternmost settlement in Russia and the whole of Asia. It is located in the Western Hemisphere, but the International Date Line curves around it, so it remains in a Russian time zone (UTC+12:00). Uelen is also the closest Asian settlement to