Cemented carbide and cutting tool

A cemented carbide comprising a plurality of tungsten carbide particles and a binder phase, wherein

• the cemented carbide comprises a total of 80% by volume or more of the tungsten carbide particles and the binder phase,
• the cemented carbide comprises 0.1% by volume or more and 20% by volume or less of the binder phase,
• the cemented carbide comprises at least one first element selected from the group consisting of titanium, tantalum, niobium, zirconium, cerium, yttrium, and boron,
• the cemented carbide comprises a total of 0.01 atomic % or more and 20 atomic % or less of the first element, and
• the binder phase comprises 50% by mass or more of cobalt, and wherein
• in a first graph showing results obtained by carrying out line analysis by using an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer attached to a transmission electron microscope along a first direction going from the binder phase to the tungsten carbide particles adjacent to each other, in a coordinate system where an X axis is a distance from a position at which cobalt exhibits a maximum intensity, and a Y axis is a normalized intensity,
• a maximum peak M of each of the first element is present between a peak W1 of tungsten closest to an origin and a further peak W2 of tungsten closest to the peak W1,
• a ratio IB/IA of an intensity IB to a maximum peak intensity IA of the maximum peak M is 0.5 or less in each of the first element, and
• the intensity IB is an intensity of the first element at a distance P2, which is a distance of 0.2 nm from a distance P1 at the maximum peak intensity IA toward an opposite side of the origin.