The northern hemisphere is above the equator and the southern hemisphere is below the equator.
This is how we refer to the halves of the Earth above and below the equator.
The northern hemisphere is everything above the equator. Everything below it is called the southern hemisphere.
get a globe, find virgin ISLANDS, then find the EQUATOR. if these islands are above the equator its the northern hemishphere, if the islands are below the equator then it is the southern hem.
If you look at a globe everthing above the equator is the northern hemisphere and everything below is the southern hemisphere.
Above the equator
It is above the equator.
Louisiana is above the equator. No part of the continental US is below the equator. This assumes that you are comfortable with the completely arbitrary convention of calling north above and south below.
It's above the equator
It is above the equator.
The continent of Australia is completely below, or south of the equator. Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere because it is south of the equator.
It's above the equator.
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You can flip the world around so to Nigerians they would say they are above the equator, but to people in North America, you would say Nigeria is below the equator. Nigeria is in the southern hemisphere.
Venezuela is north the equator (technically it is incorrect to say it is above the equator. The only thing above the equator is the sky)