The continent of North America is north of the Equator.
It's north of the equator
No, it is in the Caribbean. Yes, both physically and politically. Since it is owned by the US, it would be a political part of North America. And the Caribbean Islands are grouped together with the mainland of North America, so it is physically a part of North America as well.
North
All 50 US states are north of the equator.
South America
No, it is found at 23.5 degrees north and south of the equator. It doesn't run thru North America
That is the convention adopted. North of the equator is the Northern hemisphere, North America is north of the Equator.
The American continents are located in both northern (North and Central America) and southern (South America) hemispheres. The United States of America (sometimes improperly called simply "America" is on the North American continent and therefore in the northern hemisphere. The US Civil War is sometimes called a war between "north" and "south" but in that case both sides were in the USA, in North America, and in the northern hemisphere.
The equator is the dividing line between north and south. It circles the entire mid-line of the earth, so it runs through every east-west longitude on earth. Therefore there is no such concept as 'east or west of the equator'.North America ... including all of the US, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama ... is completely North of the equator.Part of South America ... including all of Venezuela, Guyana, French Guyana, and Suriname, and parts of Colombia and Brazil ... is also North of the equator.The rest of South America is South of the equator.
North America
It is the Atlantic Ocean, commonly split into North Atlantic (north of the equator, separating Europe and northern Africa from North America) and South Atlantic (south of the equator, so separating Africa from South America). This question was answered in Europe (east of the Atlantic) and was probably asked in the USA (west of the Atlantic)
The U.S. is in North America.