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No they are not always called hurricanes.

Win the western Pacific they are called typhoons and in the southern Pacific they are called cyclones.

The generic term is tropical cyclone.

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No, hurricanes are only called hurricanes when they form in the Atlantic Ocean or the eastern Pacific Ocean. The same weather phenomenon is referred to as typhoons in the western Pacific and cyclones in the Indian ocean and South Pacific.

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