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National Order of the Cedar (وسام الأرز الوطني)
National Order of the Cedar (وسام الأرز الوطني), Lebanon's highest order of merit, created 31 December 1936, regulated by decree-law 122 of 1959, with grades from knight to grand collar, awarded to Lebanese and foreigners.
National Organization for Marriage
National Organization for Marriage (NOM), founded 2007, a 501(c)(4) group opposing same-sex marriage, led by Brian S. Brown, with a 501(c)(3) Education Fund and disclosure litigation history.
National Organization for Women
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist advocacy organization founded on June 30, 1966, in Washington, D.C. by Betty Friedan and 48 others.
National Palace (Mexico)
The National Palace (Spanish: Palacio Nacional) is the government building on the Zócalo in Mexico City serving as the seat of Mexico's executive branch and the president's official workplace.
National Palace Museum (国立故宫博物院)
The National Palace Museum (國立故宮博物院), founded in Beijing in 1925 and re-established in Taipei in 1965, holds over 696,000 imperial Chinese artifacts spanning the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.
National Pan-Hellenic Council
National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), founded May 10, 1930 at Howard University, is the coordinating body for the nine historically Black fraternities and sororities called the Divine Nine, with over 1.5 million members.
National Paralympic Committees of Africa
The National Paralympic Committees of Africa are the 49 national bodies recognized by the International Paralympic Committee to represent African countries in the Paralympic Games.
National Paralympic Committees of Asia
The National Paralympic Committees of Asia are the 45 Asian NPCs recognized by the IPC, organized under the Asian Paralympic Committee, founded in Busan in 2002, spanning five sub-regions.
National Paralympic Committees of Europe
National Paralympic Committees of Europe are IPC-recognized national bodies with the exclusive right to enter athletes in the Paralympic Games, overseen by the European Paralympic Committee.
National Paralympic Committees of the Americas
The National Paralympic Committees of the Americas are 34 national bodies recognized by the International Paralympic Committee, coordinated regionally by the Americas Paralympic Committee since 1997.
National park
National park: government-designated protected area (IUCN Category II) conserving ecosystems and scenery while allowing recreation. First was Yellowstone, March 1, 1872; the U.S. system now spans 433 sites and 63 national parks.
National Park Foundation
National Park Foundation (NPF), chartered by Congress December 18, 1967 (Public Law 90-209), is the official charity and nonprofit philanthropic partner of the U.S. National Park Service, raising private funds for 400+ parks; distinct from the National Parks Conservation Association and National Park Trust.
National Park of American Samoa
National Park of American Samoa (est. 1988, PL 100-571) is the only U.S. national park south of the Equator, on Tutuila, Ta'ū, and Ofu. Its 13,500 acres of rainforest and reef are leased, not owned, from Samoan villages under a 50-year 1993 agreement.
National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS), a U.S. Department of the Interior bureau created by the Organic Act signed August 25, 1916, manages over 400 park units covering more than 84 million acres, conserving scenery, wildlife, and historic objects unimpaired for future generations.
National Park Service General Authorities Act
The National Park System General Authorities Act (Public Law 91-383, 1970) unified all National Park Service areas into one system with equal standing and uniform administration, amended in 1978 by the Redwood amendment's non-derogation standard.
National Park Service Organic Act
The National Park Service Organic Act, also called the 1916 Organic Act (54 U.S.C. 100101), is the U.S. law signed by Woodrow Wilson on August 25, 1916 that created the National Park Service and set its mandate to conserve park scenery, objects, and wildlife unimpaired for future generations.
National Park Service ranger
National Park Service ranger: uniformed NPS employee (GS-0025) in law enforcement, interpretation, EMS, or resource protection; corps dates to pre-1916 Interior scouts; NPS lost 24% of permanent staff since January 2025.
National Park Service rustic
National Park Service rustic, or "Parkitecture," is the American park architecture style of 1916–1942 using native logs and stone, hand labor, and landscape-blending siting, exemplified at Longmire and ended by Mission 66 modernism.
National Park Service uniforms
National Park Service uniforms: standardized gray-and-green clothing identifying NPS employees, also called ranger uniforms. Evolved from Army cavalry dress (1886), an authorized 1911 uniform, official 1920 regulations, and today's dress, service, and field classes under Director's Order #43.
National Park Service visitor centers
A National Park Service visitor center is a purpose-built park facility offering orientation, exhibits, and services; the building type was created by NPS planners during Mission 66.
National park systems of Latin America and the Caribbean
The national park systems of Latin America and the Caribbean are country-by-country networks of legally designated protected areas covering 21.4% of the region, begun in the 1930s.
National Parks Conservation Association
National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), founded 1919 as the National Parks Association by Robert Sterling Yard and Stephen T. Mather, is an independent nonprofit advocating for U.S. national parks, with 1.9 million supporters.
National parks of Australia
Australia's national parks are protected areas run by state, territory, and Commonwealth agencies rather than one federal service, numbering over 600 across 28 million hectares.
National parks of Central America
The national parks of Central America are the protected wildland systems of seven republics from Belize to Panama, with 554 declared protected areas covering 25% of the region's territory.
National parks of Egypt
The national parks of Egypt are protected areas designated under Law 102 of 1983, covering about 10% of the country, including Ras Muhammad and Wadi El Hitan.
National parks of Madagascar
The national parks of Madagascar are a network of terrestrial and marine protected areas run by Madagascar National Parks since 1991, tracing back to French reserves created in 1927.
National parks of New Zealand
New Zealand's national parks are 13 protected areas covering about 11% of the country, governed by the National Parks Act 1980 and administered by the Department of Conservation.
National parks of the Caribbean islands
The national parks of the Caribbean islands are protected natural areas across Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and the Lesser Antilles.
National parks of the Middle East and Central Asia
National parks of the Middle East and Central Asia are state-designated protected areas. Iran manages a tiered reserve hierarchy, covering 16,676,734 hectares, while Saudi Arabia has 31.26 percent coverage.
National parks of the United Kingdom
The national parks of the United Kingdom are 15 protected landscapes, 10 in England, 3 in Wales, 2 in Scotland, designated mainly under the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, first the Peak District in 1951, latest the South Downs in 2010.