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North Andaman Island
North Andaman Island is the northernmost of the four large islands of Great Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Main town Diglipur; area about 1376 sq km; Saddle Peak (731 m), the archipelago's highest point; seismic zone V.
North Anna nuclear power plant
The North Anna nuclear power plant is a two-unit plant in Louisa County, Virginia, operated by Dominion Energy, with Westinghouse pressurized water reactors online since 1978 and 1980.
North Antelope Rochelle Coal Mine
The North Antelope Rochelle Coal Mine is a surface coal mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, operated by Peabody Energy and the largest coal producer in the United States.
North Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)
North Antrim (N05000012), a county constituency in the UK Parliament covering northern County Antrim including Ballymena and Rathlin Island. Held by the Paisley family from 1970 to 2024; won in 2024 by Jim Allister of the TUV, beating Ian Paisley by 450 votes. Electorate 74,697.
North Arabia Gas Field
North Arabia is an unconventional natural gas field in northern Saudi Arabia operated by Saudi Aramco, its first unconventional gas project, online since 2018 and supplying over 200 million scfd.
North Aral Sea
North Aral Sea (Lesser Aral), the Kazakhstan portion of the former Aral Sea fed by the Syr Darya. Split from the South Aral by 1987; the 2005 Kokaral dam restored its level, area, salinity, and fisheries.
North Asasif
North Asasif is the northern part of the Asasif burial ground in the Theban necropolis at Luxor, used as an elite cemetery from about 2050 BCE.
North Asia
North Asia is the northernmost region of Asia, essentially Siberia and the Russian Far East; the IPCC divides it into West Siberia, East Siberia, and the Russian Far East, distinct from Northeast Asia.
North Atlantic Current
The North Atlantic Current, also called the North Atlantic Drift, is a warm ocean current that continues the Gulf Stream northeastward from the Grand Banks toward the British Isles.
North Atlantic Deep Water
North Atlantic Deep Water is a cold, salty water mass formed in the subpolar North Atlantic and Nordic Seas that flows southward and ventilates the deep ocean.
North Atlantic garbage patch
The North Atlantic garbage patch, or Atlantic Garbage Patch, is a zone of floating plastic debris, mostly microplastics, in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre near Bermuda.
North Atlantic oscillation
The North Atlantic oscillation (NAO) is a fluctuation in atmospheric pressure between the Azores High and the Icelandic Low that shapes winter weather across Europe and eastern North America.
North Atlantic right whale
North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), a critically endangered baleen whale of the U.S. and Canadian east coast; about 380 remain, threatened mainly by fishing-gear entanglement and vessel strikes.
North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization
NASCO (North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization), est. 1983 under the Convention for the Conservation of Salmon in the North Atlantic Ocean, is the inter-governmental body regulating wild Atlantic salmon fisheries via Council and three commissions from Edinburgh.
North Atlantic storm track
The North Atlantic storm track is the band where extratropical cyclones form and travel, downstream of the jet stream, bringing winter windstorms, heavy precipitation, and storm surges to western Europe.
North Atlantic Surf Association
North Atlantic Surf Association (NASA, Surfklubben NASA), surf club founded 1996/1997 in Klitmøller, Thisted, Denmark, in Cold Hawaii; DIF-affiliated, ISA membership applicant for Denmark, PWA World Cup co-organizer.
North Atlantic Tracks
North Atlantic Tracks, or NAT Tracks, are daily air routes across the North Atlantic that follow the winds, published twice daily by Gander and Shanwick control centers.
North Atlantic Treaty
The North Atlantic Treaty, or Washington Treaty, signed 4 April 1949 in Washington, D.C. by 12 nations, created NATO; its Article 5 collective defense clause and Article 10 open door now bind 32 members.
North Baja Gas Pipeline
The North Baja Gas Pipeline is an 86-mile natural gas pipeline owned by TC Energy that transports gas from Ehrenberg, Arizona, through California into Mexico's Baja Norte system.
North Bangkok power station
The North Bangkok power station (โรงไฟฟ้าพระนครเหนือ) is a natural gas-fired combined cycle power station of EGAT on the Chao Phraya River in Nonthaburi, Thailand, with a contracted capacity of 1,498 MW.
North Bay, Ontario
North Bay, Ontario: a city of about 62,000 on Lake Nipissing, 345 km north of Toronto. Founded as a CPR railway camp in 1882, incorporated 1925; NORAD base, Nipissing University, Gateway to the North.
North Borneo Chartered Company
The North Borneo Chartered Company was a British chartered company that governed North Borneo, now Sabah in Malaysia, from 1881 until the Japanese invasion of 1942.
North Borneo dispute
North Borneo dispute: Philippine claim to Sabah as heir to the Sultanate of Sulu, based on the 1878 grant to the British North Borneo Company; Malaysia rejects it, and the USD 14.92 billion Sulu arbitration award was annulled in 2025.
North Brabant
North Brabant (Noord-Brabant) is a southern Dutch province, capital 's-Hertogenbosch, largest city Eindhoven; 5,081 km², 62 municipalities, formed from the Duchy of Brabant, home to the Brainport high-tech economy.
North Bridge Growth Equity
North Bridge Growth Equity was a growth-equity investment series under North Bridge Growth Management, based in Waltham, Massachusetts and Palo Alto, California, that raised a $581.7 million Fund II in 2013.
North British Railway
The North British Railway was a Scottish railway company, incorporated in 1844, that grew into the largest in Scotland and dominated the east coast route to England.
North Buttress, Mt. Hesperus
North Buttress is an alternate name for Mount Hesperus, Alaska, a 9,828-ft Revelation Mountains peak, Bethel County high point, first climbed May 2, 1985 via the Southwest Face by Lesueur, Swanson, and Spalding; climbed only once.
North by Northwest
North by Northwest is Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 MGM espionage thriller, written by Ernest Lehman, in which Cary Grant's advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy and chased across America to Mount Rushmore, with Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.
North Cape (Norway)
North Cape (Nordkapp, Davvenjárga) is a 309 m cliff plateau on Magerøya, Finnmark, Norway, at 71°10′21″N, reached by E69 and marketed as mainland Europe's northernmost point, though Knivskjellodden and Kinnarodden lie farther north.
North Caribbean Coast
North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (RACCN, formerly RAAN), Nicaragua's northeastern autonomous region created by the 1987 Autonomy Statute, seat Bilwi, eight municipalities, multiethnic Miskito and mestizo population, high cyclone exposure.