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North 24 Parganas district
North 24 Parganas district (উত্তর পরগনা) is a district in southern West Bengal, India, headquartered in Barasat. It is the most populous district in the state.
North Africa
North Africa: the Mediterranean-facing top third of the African continent (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, often Mauritania), defined by the Sahara, Atlas Mountains, Islamic-era history, and 4.4% growth in 2025.
North African campaign
The North African campaign (September 13, 1940 to May 13, 1943) was the WWII desert war between Allied and Axis forces in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, decided largely by logistics and ending with about 250,000 Axis troops surrendering in Tunisia.
North African playwrights
North African playwrights work in traditions shaped by Amazigh and Arabo-Islamic heritage, including Tawfiq al-Hakim, often called the founder of Arabic drama, and Algeria's Brecht-influenced Kateb Yacine.
North America
North America: third-largest continent from the Aleutians to the Isthmus of Panama; 23 UN-counted countries, Denali at 6,194 m, five physical regions, and contested naming conventions.
North American A-5 Vigilante
The North American A-5 Vigilante, originally designated A3J, was a twin-engine, carrier-based Mach 2 nuclear strike bomber for the United States Navy, flown mostly as the RA-5C reconnaissance aircraft.
North American and European edible mushroom sectors
The North American and European edible mushroom sectors are the commercial industries growing, importing, and selling cultivated food mushrooms across Europe, the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
North American Aviation
North American Aviation was an American aircraft manufacturer, founded in 1928, that built the P-51 Mustang and B-25 Mitchell and produced more wartime aircraft than any other company.
North American B-25 Mitchell
The North American B-25 Mitchell, also called the B-25 bomber, was an American twin-engine medium bomber of World War II, famous for the 1942 Doolittle Raid.
North American B-45 Tornado
The North American B-45 Tornado was the United States Air Force's first operational jet bomber, the first jet bomber capable of carrying an atomic bomb; 142 were built.
North American Basin
North American Basin (US BGN ACUF: North America Basin), a large deep-sea basin in the western North Atlantic between Newfoundland Ridge and the Puerto Rico Trench, containing the Sohm and Hatteras abyssal plains and Blake Ridge.
North American beaver
The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is the continent's largest rodent, a keystone ecosystem engineer that builds dams and lodges, was nearly exterminated by the fur trade, and is invasive in parts of Eurasia.
North American blizzard of 1996
The North American blizzard of 1996, commonly called the Blizzard of '96, was a severe nor'easter that struck the eastern United States from January 6 to 8, 1996.
North American Breeding Bird Survey
The North American Breeding Bird Survey is a citizen-science program, launched in 1966 by Chandler Robbins, in which volunteers count birds along roadside routes to estimate population trends.
North American bridge championships
The North American Bridge Championships (NABCs) are three bridge festivals the American Contract Bridge League stages each year, rotating among cities in the United States and Canada.
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
NAACL, the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, is a regional chapter organizing an annual natural language processing conference, renamed Nations of the Americas Chapter in 2024.
North American Charging Standard
The North American Charging Standard (NACS) is an electric vehicle charging connector developed by Tesla, opened to the industry in 2022 and standardized by SAE International as J3400.
North American cougar
North American cougar (Puma concolor couguar), also called mountain lion or puma: the single recognized cougar subspecies of North America, genetically homogeneous after late Pleistocene recolonization; breeding populations now mainly western, plus Florida panther and recent Midwest recolonization.
North American Electric Reliability Corporation
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) sets and enforces mandatory reliability standards for the North American bulk power grid, which serves nearly 400 million people.
North American English
North American English is the grouping of US and Canadian English dialects as one supranational variety, largely rhotic, with Northern, Midland, Southern, and Western regions, Canadian English mixing American and British features, and American variants growing in Canada.
North American F-100 Super Sabre
The North American F-100 Super Sabre is a supersonic jet fighter built for the United States Air Force, the first production aircraft to fly supersonic in level flight.
North American F-107
The North American F-107, often called the Ultra Sabre, was a Mach 2 fighter-bomber developed by North American Aviation for the US Air Force, canceled in March 1957 when the F-105 was chosen.
North American F-82 Twin Mustang
The North American F-82 Twin Mustang, also called the P-82, was a twin-fuselage long-range fighter that scored the first American air victories of the Korean War.
North American F-86 Sabre
The North American F-86 Sabre is an American swept-wing jet fighter, first flown in 1947, that served as the USAF's primary fighter of the Korean War.
North American Free Trade Agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a 1994 free trade agreement among Canada, Mexico, and the United States that eliminated most tariffs over 15 years.
North American fur trade
The North American fur trade was the exchange of animal pelts, above all beaver, between Indigenous producers and European merchants from the early 1600s to the mid-1800s.
North American Hockey League
North American Hockey League (NAHL), USA Hockey's only Tier II tuition-free junior hockey league, 36 US teams, Robertson Cup champion, record 338+ NCAA commitments per season; distinct from the defunct 1970s professional league of the same name.
North American Indian Portfolio
The North American Indian Portfolio is a book of 25 hand-colored lithographs after paintings by George Catlin, published in London in 1844 from his travels among Plains tribes.
North American Industry Classification System
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard used by the statistical agencies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico to classify business establishments for economic statistics.
North American Interfraternity Conference
North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC), formerly National Interfraternity Council: a voluntary trade association of men's fraternities in the US and Canada, founded November 27, 1909 with 26 members; sets NIC Standards on academics, hazing, and alcohol for campus Interfraternity Councils.