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Nord-du-Québec
Nord-du-Québec (region 10, formerly Nouveau-Québec) is Quebec's largest administrative region, over half the province's area, with 47,541 people in 2025 across Jamésie, Eeyou Istchee, and Nunavik, governed under the 1975 James Bay Agreement and driven by mining.
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin (Bassin minier du Nord-Pas de Calais), a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2012 in northern France: 109 components over 120 km of coalfield, worked from the 18th century until the last shaft closed in 1990.
Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, former French region of Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments around Lille; densely populated, coal-mining and industrial heartland, UNESCO mining basin, merged into Hauts-de-France in 2016.
Nordahl Grieg
Nordahl Grieg, full name Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg, was a Norwegian poet, playwright, and war correspondent, known for the 1936 poem Til ungdommen and for wartime BBC broadcasts; he was killed over Berlin in 1943.
Nordan Mukiele
Nordan Mukiele (born 2006, Montreuil) is a French right winger, brother of Nordi and Norvin Mukiele, a Stade Rennais academy product loaned 2026/27 to Montpellier in Ligue 2, with 5 France U16 caps.
Nordaustlandet
Nordaustlandet (North-East Land), Svalbard's second largest island at 14,467 km², lies northeast of Spitsbergen across Hinlopenstretet and is mostly covered by the Vestfonna and Austfonna ice caps, Europe's largest glacier.
NordBalt
NordBalt is a 700 MW high-voltage direct current submarine electricity interconnector linking Klaipėda in Lithuania and Nybro in Sweden, owned by Litgrid and Svenska kraftnät and in service since 2016.
Norddeutscher Lloyd
Norddeutscher Lloyd, known in English as North German Lloyd, was a major German shipping company founded in Bremen in 1857 and merged with Hapag in 1970.
Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) is the ARD public broadcaster for Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Founded as NORAG in 1924, split from NWDR in 1955/56; governed by the NDR Staatsvertrag with Intendant Hendrik Lünenborg since 2025.
Nordea
Nordea Bank Abp is a Nordic financial services group headquartered in Helsinki, the largest in the Nordic markets, with close to 10 million customers and USD 647 billion in assets.
Norden bombsight
The Norden bombsight, also known as the Norden sight, was a gyrostabilized optical bombsight by Carl L. Norden, used by American bombers from the 1930s into the 1960s.
Norden E. Huang
Norden E. Huang (黄锷) is a Taiwanese oceanographer who created the Hilbert–Huang Transform at NASA's Goddard center, serving as Chief Scientist for Oceanography from 2000 to 2006.
Nordenflycht Patera
Nordenflycht Patera is a 140-km-wide patera on Venus at 35°S, 266°E, named for Swedish poet Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht and adopted by the IAU in 1997.
Nordenskiöld (Martian crater)
Nordenskiöld is an 89 km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 52.37°S, 201.10°E, named in 1982 for Swedish geologist and arctic researcher Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832–1901).
Nordenskiöldkysten (protected area)
Nordenskiöldkysten, Ramsar Site no. 1968, is a 42,992-hectare wetland of international importance on Spitsbergen's west coast, Svalbard, designated 12 November 2010 within Nordenskiöld Land national park and managed by the Governor of Svalbard.
Nordenskiöldkysten (region)
Nordenskiöldkysten, a coastal region on western Spitsbergen, Svalbard (about 77°54'N, 13°45'E), named after Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld; Ramsar site no. 1968 and barnacle goose breeding area.
Nordenskjöld Coast
Nordenskjöld Coast, on the east Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather, is named for explorer Otto Nordenskjöld; its outlet glaciers have lost about 4.2 Gt of ice per year since the 1995 Larsen-A ice shelf collapse.
Norderstedt
Norderstedt, city in Kreis Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, on Hamburg's northern border; founded 1 January 1970 from Friedrichsgabe, Garstedt, Glashütte, and Harksheide; fourth-largest city in the state with about 83,000 inhabitants.
Nordex
Nordex is a German wind turbine manufacturer specializing in onshore turbines. Founded in 1985 in Denmark, it has installed over 57 GW of capacity in more than 40 markets.
Nordholz Naval Airbase
Nordholz Naval Airbase is a German Navy air base in Lower Saxony, a principal airship port from 1914 and home of the Naval Air Command since 1964.
Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve
Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve (Nordhordland biosfæreområde), Norway's first UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 2019; 669,800 ha between Bergen and Sognefjorden, 8 municipalities, managed by IKS Region Nordhordland.
Nordi Mukiele
Nordi Mukiele (Nordi Mukiele Mulere), French defender born 1997 in Montreuil; played for Montpellier, RB Leipzig, PSG, and Leverkusen before joining Sunderland in 2025; one France cap (2021).
Nordic aliens
Nordic aliens, also called Pleiadians, Tall Whites, or Space Brothers, are human-like beings of UFO folklore: tall, blond, telepathic visitors from 1950s contactee claims by Adamski and Meier, with no verified evidence.
Nordic Baroque literature
Nordic Baroque literature is the emotionally charged, ornate, image-rich Baroque-style writing produced in Denmark, Norway, Sweden including Finland, and Iceland from about 1600 to 1720, when Enlightenment currents took over.
Nordic Bronze Age
Nordic Bronze Age (1700–500 BC, or 1800 BCE with northern Germany): Scandinavian bronze-working culture of six Montelius periods, entirely dependent on imported copper and tin, with agropastoral, maritime economy and rich metal depositions.
Nordic children's literature
Nordic children's literature is the body of books for children in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, known internationally for Astrid Lindgren and Tove Jansson and the autonomous child character they popularized after 1945.
Nordic Combat Uniform
The Nordic Combat Uniform (NCU) is a layered combat uniform system procured jointly by Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden through NORDEFCO, signed with supplier Oskar Pedersen AS in 2022.
Nordic combined
Nordic combined: winter sport pairing ski jumping and cross-country skiing, decided by the Gundersen method (1 jump point = 4 seconds). Olympic since Chamonix 1924; no women's event; cut from the 2030 Olympic program.
Nordic combined at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
Nordic combined at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is the ski jumping plus cross-country skiing medal program at the world championships, held since 1925.
Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics
Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics, also called the Gundersen format, combines ski jumping and cross-country skiing; a men-only discipline at every Games since Chamonix 1924, Norway leads with 35 medals, and the IOC removed it from the 2030 program.