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Nagoya Protocol

The Nagoya Protocol, adopted in Nagoya, Japan, in 2010 and in force since 2014, requires fair sharing of benefits from using genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, with 143 parties.

Nagpur (नागपूर), the Orange City and winter capital of Maharashtra, India, in Vidarbha; founded 1702 by Gond ruler Bakht Buland Shah, later Bhonsle capital, Central Provinces capital, and site of the Zero Mile Stone.

Nagpur Division

Nagpur Division is one of six administrative divisions of the Indian state of Maharashtra, headquartered at Nagpur and covering the six eastern Vidarbha districts, including Chandrapur and Gadchiroli.

Sep 23, 2026

Nagpur State

Nagpur State (नागपूरचे भोसले) was a Maratha state of central India ruled by the Bhosale family, who made Nagpur their capital in 1743 and ruled until British annexation in 1853.

Oct 15, 2026

Nagra IV-S

The Nagra IV-S is a portable stereo ¼-inch analog reel-to-reel tape recorder made by Swiss manufacturer Nagra, introduced in 1971 as the company's first stereo model for music, film, and television.

Nagraj Manjule

Nagraj Manjule (Nagraj Popatrao Manjule) is an Indian Marathi filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and poet from Solapur, Maharashtra, director of the caste-centered films Pistulya, Fandry (National Award winner) and Sairat (2016), the first Marathi film to gross Rs 100 crore; his Hindi work includes Jhund (2022) and the Prime Video series Matka King (2026).

Nagriamel

Nagriamel, led by Jimmy Stevens, was a kastom-based political movement founded on Espiritu Santo in the 1960s that campaigned for the return of alienated land.

Nagual

Nagual (nahual, nawal; Nahuatl nahualli) is a Mesoamerican concept of a supernatural animal companion or co-essence and of sorcerers who transform into animals, distinct from the tonal companion spirit, with Classic Maya cognate way.

Naguchitsa Fossae

Naguchitsa Fossae is a 730-km fossa (long, narrow depression) on Venus at 35.6°S, 159.3°E, IAU-named in 2003 after an Adygan mythological old woman with iron teeth.

Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ)

Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ; 1911–2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Arabic-native-language laureate, best known for the Cairo Trilogy.

Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature is an award given since 1996 by the American University in Cairo Press to the best contemporary Arabic novel not yet translated into English.

Naguib Sawiris

Naguib Sawiris (نجيب ساويرس) is an Egyptian businessman and member of the Coptic Christian minority who founded Orascom Telecom, sold it to VimpelCom in 2011, and later founded ORA Developers.

Nagulavaram Mound

Nagulavaram Mound, also listed as Mounds within the limit of Nagulavaram, is a centrally protected archaeological site at Nagulavaram village, Macherla, Palanadu, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, under ASI Amaravati Circle, on the old cart route to Nagarjunakonda.

Sep 29, 2026

Nagumo model

The Nagumo model is a nonlinear reaction-diffusion partial differential equation, named after Jin-Ichi Nagumo, that models nerve impulses along an axon and the spread of genetic traits.

Sep 19, 2026

Nagwada

Nagwada is a Chalcolithic and Harappan-period settlement site in Surendranagar District, North Gujarat, India, known for its Anarta pottery, stone-bead making, and shell working, excavated in the late 1980s.

Nagyatád land reform

The Nagyatád land reform, a modest redistribution program of interwar Hungary under two 1920 laws, distributed about 8.5 percent of farmland to over 400,000 families, leaving large estates intact.

Nagyvárosi ikonok

Nagyvárosi ikonok ("Big-city icons") is a 1970 poetry collection by the Hungarian poet János Pilinszky, his third book of verse, gathering poems from 1940 to 1970.

Naha (那覇)

Naha (那覇) is the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, former port of the Ryukyu Kingdom; about 310,700 residents on 41.46 km², municipalized 1921, destroyed in 1944, reverted to Japan 1972.

Naha Airport (那覇空港)

Naha Airport (那覇空港), Okinawa's main gateway, began as a 1933 Imperial Japanese Navy airfield, reverted to Japan in 1972, and now has two runways (3,000 m and 2,700 m), about 20.6 million annual passengers, and joint JASDF civil-military use.

Sep 19, 2026

Nahal Gerar

Nahal Gerar, also called Wadi esh-Sheriah, is a wadi in the northern Negev of Israel, home to major Bronze and Iron Age settlements, most prominently Tel Haror.

Sep 19, 2026

Nahal Tut (archaeological site)

Nahal Tut (נחל תות), also written 'En Tut, is an archaeological site in northern Israel excavated in 2005, with remains from the Middle Bronze Age to the Mamluk period.

Nahanni National Park Reserve

Nahanni National Park Reserve (Nahʔą Dehé), Northwest Territories, Canada: UNESCO World Heritage site since 1978, expanded 2009 to about 30,000 km2, home of the South Nahanni River, Virginia Falls, and Canada's largest tufa mounds.

Sep 23, 2026

Nahapana

Nahapana (नहपान) was a Western Kshatrap of the Kshaharata house who ruled Gujarat, Maharashtra, and the western Deccan, and was defeated by the Satavahana king Gautamiputra Satakarni.

Nahargarh Biological Park

Nahargarh Biological Park (नाहरगढ़ जैविक पार्क), also Nahargarh Zoological Park, is a 720-hectare zoo and rescue center in Nahargarh sanctuary near Jaipur, Rajasthan, opened 2016 as a satellite of Jaipur Zoo, with lion and tiger safaris and over 285 bird species.