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National Book Award for Nonfiction
The National Book Award for Nonfiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, established in 1950, honoring the best nonfiction published each year in the United States.
National Book Award for Poetry
The National Book Award for Poetry is an annual American literary prize, given since 1950 by the National Book Foundation to a poetry book by a US writer.
National Book Award for Young People's Literature
The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is an annual prize given by the National Book Foundation to the best book for young readers published in the United States.
National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual American literary prize given each March by working critics in six categories including Fiction and Nonfiction, first awarded in 1976.
National Book Trust, India
National Book Trust, India (राष्ट्रीय पुस्तक न्यास) is a Government of India organization, established in 1957, that publishes affordable books in more than 50 Indian languages.
National Botanic Garden of Wales
Botanic garden at Middleton Hall, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire, Wales; opened 24 May 2000; 568 acres; over 5,000 plant taxa; home to the world's largest single-span glasshouse.
National Botanic Garden of Zimbabwe
The National Botanic Garden of Zimbabwe is a 68-hectare botanical garden in Alexandra Park, about 4 km north of Harare, holding roughly 90 percent of Zimbabwe's woody flora.
National Botanical Garden of Iran
National Botanical Garden of Iran (باغ گیاهشناسی ملی ایران), formerly Aryamehr Botanical Garden: 145-hectare botanical garden in northwest Tehran, largest in Iran, about 4,000 species, run by the Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands.
National Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China National Botanical Garden (国家植物园), Beijing's first national botanical garden, approved December 2021 and inaugurated April 2022, combining IBCAS South Garden and Beijing Botanical Garden North Garden across 300 open hectares with 18,000 plant species.
National Boyfriend Day
National Boyfriend Day, also written National Boyfriend's Day or National Boyfriends Day, is an unofficial October 3 social media observance for appreciating boyfriends, with no verified founder and contested 2012 versus 2014 origins.
National Bravery Award
National Bravery Award: annual Indian award for children, started 1957 by the Indian Council for Child Welfare, with Bharat, Geeta and Sanjay Chopra, and Bapu Gaidhani categories, presented by the Prime Minister before Republic Day; later replaced by the PMRBP.
National Bridge Inspection Standards
The National Bridge Inspection Standards are US federal regulations requiring routine highway bridge inspections at least every 24 months, created in 1971 after the Silver Bridge collapse.
National Bridge Inventory
The National Bridge Inventory is a Federal Highway Administration database tracking the location, condition, and ratings of more than 624,000 bridges on United States public roads.
National Broadband Network
The National Broadband Network (NBN) is Australia's wholesale-only, open-access broadband network, built by NBN Co and sold to retail providers, using fiber, copper, wireless, and satellite, declared complete in 2020.
National Broadcasting Corporation of Papua New Guinea
National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) of Papua New Guinea, the national public broadcaster, the "Voice of PNG." Founded 1 December 1973 from the ABC's PNG radio service; became a corporation in 1995; radio, Kundu2 TV since 2008, digital migration 2024.
National Building Code of Canada
The National Building Code of Canada is a model building code published by the National Research Council, setting technical requirements for building design and construction since 1941.
National Bureau of Economic Research
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonpartisan economic research organization founded in New York City in 1920 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
National Bureau of Investigation (Philippines)
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), Philippine investigative agency under the DOJ, founded 1936 and modeled on the US FBI; investigates crimes, keeps criminal records, issues NBI clearances, and is led by Director Melvin Matibag.
National Bureau of Statistics
The National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) is China's central statistical agency, re-founded in 1952, disrupted during the Great Leap Forward, abolished in 1970, and restored in 1978.
National Bureau of Statistics of China
The National Bureau of Statistics of China (国家统计局, NBS) is the State Council agency in charge of statistics nationwide, conducting censuses and compiling and publishing China's GDP.
National Cadet Corps (राष्ट्रीय कैडेट कोर) (India)
National Cadet Corps (NCC, राष्ट्रीय कैडेट कोर) is India's tri-services youth organization under the Ministry of Defence, created by the NCC Act of 1948, with over 15 lakh cadets in 2025 and A, B, C certificates.
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the federal government's principal cancer research agency, is part of the National Institutes of Health and was established in 1937.
National Capital Dadri Thermal Power Plant
The National Capital Dadri Thermal Power Plant, also called the National Capital Power Station, is an NTPC-owned multi-fuel power station in Uttar Pradesh, built to supply Delhi.
National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
National Capital District (NCD), Papua New Guinea: the constitutional district containing the capital Port Moresby, 240 sq km, 756,754 residents (2024 census), governed by the NCDC with no elected local level governments.
National Capital Region (Canada)
The National Capital Region (Région de la capitale nationale) is Canada's 4,715 km² capital area spanning Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec, defined by the National Capital Act since 1959 and planned by the National Capital Commission.
National Capital Region (India)
The National Capital Region (NCR), also called Delhi NCR, is India's inter-state planning region around Delhi, created by the NCRPB Act 1985; it spans 55,083 sq km, 24 districts in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and NCT-Delhi, with 58.16 million people (2011).
National Cardiovascular Data Registry
The National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) is the American College of Cardiology's suite of clinical registries, founded in 1997, holding over 50 million patient records for quality benchmarking.
National Cartoonists Society
National Cartoonists Society (NCS), professional cartoonists' organization founded March 1, 1946 in New York; Rube Goldberg first president; bestows the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year; over 500 members worldwide.
National Cave Rescue Commission
The National Cave Rescue Commission (NCRC) is a volunteer commission of the National Speleological Society, chartered in 1979, that trains and coordinates cave rescue resources nationwide.
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is one of the 27 institutes of the National Institutes of Health, established in December 2011 to bring new treatments to patients faster.