The answer is 50. All 50 U.S. states are located north of the equator.
To understand this, it’s important to know that the equator is an imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The United States is positioned entirely in the Northern Hemisphere, with the southernmost point in Hawaii being about 19 degrees north of the equator. This means that every state, from Maine in the northeast to California in the southwest, lies above the equatorial line.