North America is almost but not quite entirely in the Western Hemisphere of the earth.
A small portion of Alaska's Aleutian Island chain crosses the line into the Eastern hemisphere.
west
east and west hemisphere
Aberdeen is in the west hemisphere.
There are usually two ways to split a sphere in two - north-south and east-west. The US is in the Northern hemisphere and in the Western hemisphere.
East
There are usually two ways to split a sphere in two - north-south and east-west. The US is in the Northern hemisphere and in the Western Hemisphere.
east
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun apparently rises in the east and sets in the west. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is the other way around. The Sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Note that the Sun does not actually move, it is Earth that makes it appear to move.
eastern hemisphere has almost twice as much!
Western Hemisphere
mostly west
The US is in the western hemisphere.