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The term cultural sphere expresses an understanding of culture as attached to an ethnolinguistic group and the territory it inhabits. The "spheres of influence" considered may however overlap or form concentric structures of macrocultures encompassing smaller local cultures.

Examples:

• East–West dichotomy: the notion of a Western civilization contrasting with both the Near East and the Far East
• language families
  • Slavic Europe
    • Yugosphere
  • Germanic Europe
  • Latin Europe
  • Latin America
  • Celtic Europe

individual languages

• Anglosphere
• Hispanidad
  • Hispanic America/Ibero-America
• Lusosphere
• German-speaking Europe
• Hindi Belt
• Sinosphere

geographic

• Greater China
• Greater India/Indosphere
• Greater Persia
• Nordic countries

religious

• Christendom
• Islamic world

See also

• Continent
• World language
• Culture by region