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National monuments of the National Park Service
National monuments of the National Park Service are NPS units, mostly proclaimed by presidents under the 1906 Antiquities Act, beginning with Devils Tower in 1906; NPS alone manages 107, and many, like Grand Canyon, later became national parks.
National Motor Vehicle Title Information System
The National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) is a Department of Justice database of vehicle title, brand, odometer, and salvage information, created in 1992 and operated by AAMVA.
National Movement for the Development of Society
MNSD-Nassara (Mouvement national pour la société de développement), Niger's former sole legal party under Ali Saibou, later a major conservative party led by Seyni Oumarou, suspended after the 2023 coup.
National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (Mouvement national de libération de l'Azawad, MNLA) is a predominantly Tuareg movement in northern Mali founded in 2011.
National Museum Cardiff
National Museum Cardiff, known in Welsh as Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd, is the national museum and art gallery of Wales in Cathays Park, Cardiff, holding art and natural history collections with free admission.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
NMAAHC, the Smithsonian's museum of African American life, history, and culture in Washington, D.C.; authorized 2003, opened September 24, 2016 as the 19th Smithsonian museum; designed by Adjaye and Freelon; nearly 45,000 artifacts.
National Museum of American History
National Museum of American History (NMAH), formerly Museum of History and Technology: Smithsonian museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., opened January 1964, renamed 1980, holding over 1.7 million objects including the Star-Spangled Banner.
National Museum of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland (Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann), Ireland's national museum established by the 1877 Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, with free sites at Kildare Street, Collins Barracks, Merrion Street, and Turlough Park, holding over two million archaeological objects.
National Museum of Natural History
The National Museum of Natural History is a Smithsonian research institution in Washington, D.C., holding over 148 million specimens, which is the largest natural history collection in the world.
National Museum of Norway
The National Museum of Norway (Nasjonalmuseet) is the national museum of art, architecture and design in Oslo, formed in 2003 by merging four museums. Its 54,600 m2 building on Vestbanen opened 11 June 2022 as the Nordic region's largest art museum, showing 6,500 works from a 400,000-object collection.
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Saratoga Springs, NY museum founded 1950 honoring thoroughbred racing; its Official Hall of Fame held 505 members (233 horses, 112 jockeys, 105 trainers, 55 Pillars of the Turf) as of summer 2026.
National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide (Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду)
National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide (Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду), Kyiv state museum commemorating the 1932–1933 Holodomor genocide; opened 2008, renamed 2019, second phase under construction with Canadian funding.
National Museum of the Pacific War
National Museum of the Pacific War (Fredericksburg, Texas), a Smithsonian-affiliated museum of the WWII Pacific Theater opened 1967, centered on Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, with a Bush Gallery, Pacific Combat Zone reenactment site, and oral history archives.
National Museum of the United States Air Force
The National Museum of the United States Air Force (NMUSAF) is the official U.S. Air Force museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.
National Music Publishers' Association
The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) is the American trade association for music publishers and songwriters, founded in 1917 and representing over 90% of the US publishing market.
National Native Title Tribunal
National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT), Australian independent statutory body under the Native Title Act 1993, operating since 1 January 1994; mediates native title claims, arbitrates future acts, keeps national native title registers.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金委员会)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, 国家自然科学基金委员会), China's main funder of basic research, founded 14 February 1986; peer-reviewed competitive grants, 39.5 billion yuan budget in 2025, about 880,000 projects funded over 40 years.
National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), founded by Chris Baty in 1999, challenged writers to draft 50,000 words of a novel each November, peaking at 413,295 participants in 2022 before the nonprofit closed in 2025.
National November
National November (Noviembre Nacional) is the Spanish far-right political party registered in February 2026 by the neo-Nazi group Núcleo Nacional, named for the November 2023 Ferraz anti-amnesty protests, sharing its Valladolid headquarters and under hate-crime scrutiny.
National Nuclear Corporation (United Kingdom)
The National Nuclear Corporation (NNC) was a British nuclear engineering company formed in 1973, which designed the UK's second-generation AGR nuclear power stations for the CEGB.
National Nuclear Regulator
The National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) is South Africa's statutory regulator of nuclear and radiation safety, established in 2000 to supersede the Council for Nuclear Safety.
National Nuclear Safety Administration
The National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA, 国家核安全局) is China's regulator for nuclear and radiation safety, established in 1984 and operating within the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a US Department of Commerce scientific agency, established in 1970, that forecasts weather, manages fisheries, studies climate, and operates civilian weather satellites.
National Oceanography Centre
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is the United Kingdom's lead research institution for marine science, based in Southampton and Liverpool and running the research ships Discovery and James Cook.
National Oil Corporation
The National Oil Corporation (NOC; Arabic: المؤسسة الوطنية للنفط) is Libya's state-owned national oil company, created in 1970 to manage its oil and gas resources through subsidiaries and joint ventures.
National Olympic Committee
National Olympic Committee (NOC): one of 206 IOC-recognized bodies representing countries at the Olympics, with exclusive athlete-entry authority, IOC revenue funding, private legal status, and ANOC/continental affiliation; distinct from ministries and federations.
National Operations of the NKVD
The National Operations of the NKVD (Национальные операции НКВД) were secret Soviet mass-repression campaigns against ethnic minorities and foreigners during the Great Terror of 1937 to 1938.
National Order of Merit (Malta)
The National Order of Merit (Malta), founded 1990 under the Ġieħ ir-Repubblika Act, honors Maltese citizens in four grades (KUOM, KOM, UOM, MOM) and foreign honorary members, conferred on Republic Day by the President on the Prime Minister's advice.
National Order of Merit (Romania)
National Order of Merit (Ordinul Național Pentru Merit), Romanian state order reinstituted 2000, third in peacetime hierarchy, five grades Cavaler to Mare Cruce, max 7,500 members, headed by the President.
National Order of Quebec
National Order of Quebec (Ordre national du Québec), Quebec's highest honour, created 1984 with Knight, Officer, and Grand Officer ranks (C.Q., O.Q., G.O.Q.), annual ceremonies since 1985.