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refers to the socially and economically less-developed southern half of the globe. 95% of the Global North has enough food and shelter, and a functioning education system. In the South, on the other hand, only 5% of the population has enough food and shelter. It "lacks appropriate technology, it has
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derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the
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rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of
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Use of the term "South" may also be country-relative, particularly in cases of noticeable economic or cultural divide. For example, the
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no political stability, the economies are disarticulated, and their foreign exchange earnings depend on primary product exports".
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is so named because of its location at the southern tip of Africa. Upon formation the country was named the
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in English, reflecting its origin from the unification of four formerly separate British colonies.
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In Greek religion, Notos, was the south wind and bringer of the storms of late summer and autumn.
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that, in the form of an inverted "cone", almost like a large peninsula, encompasses
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is the name that is often referred to as the southernmost area of
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exist that defy this convention. To go south using a compass for
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South (disambiguation)
Southward (surname)

compass rose
cardinal directions
compass points
north
perpendicular
west
east
Old English
Proto-Germanic
Proto-Indo-European
Yemen
Levant

América Invertida
Joaquín Torres García
convention
map
reversed maps
navigation
bearing
azimuth
Northern Hemisphere
tropics
Sun
midday
Earth
South Pole

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