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North Caribou
North Caribou (North Caribou Lake, Weagamow/Round Lake) is a large lake in Kenora District, northwestern Ontario, home to North Caribou Lake First Nation, an Oji-Cree community, and a remote fly-in fishing destination.
North Carolina
North Carolina, the Tar Heel State, is a southeastern U.S. state, 12th to ratify statehood in 1789, capital Raleigh, ninth-largest population at about 11.2 million in 2025, with Research Triangle and Charlotte economic hubs.
North Carolina A&T State University
North Carolina A&T State University, also called N.C. A&T or North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, is a public 1890 land-grant HBCU in Greensboro, North Carolina. Founded in 1891, it is America's largest HBCU, a Carnegie R2 research university, and the site of the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins.
North Carolina Democratic Party
The North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) is the state Democratic Party affiliate, chaired by Anderson Clayton, headquartered in Raleigh, organized by precinct-to-state Plan of Organization, active in a battleground with surging unaffiliated voters.
North Carolina Department of Transportation
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is North Carolina's cabinet-level transportation agency, tracing its roots to the State Highway Commission formed in 1915 and maintaining a nearly 81,000-mile highway system.
North Carolina Highway 540
North Carolina Highway 540 is the tolled southern and eastern portion of the 540 Outer Loop, a partial beltway around Raleigh, North Carolina, operated as the Triangle Expressway.
North Carolina macular dystrophy
North Carolina macular dystrophy (NCMD, MCDR1, CAPED) is a rare non-progressive autosomal dominant congenital macular disorder with drusen and photoreceptor atrophy, caused by noncoding variants upstream of PRDM13 on 6q16 or at the MCDR3 locus on chromosome 5.
North Carolina Retirement System (NCRS)
The North Carolina Retirement System is North Carolina's public pension system, covering teachers, state employees, and local government workers and administered by the State Treasurer.
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) is a tuition-free public residential high school for talented 11th and 12th graders in Durham, North Carolina, opened in 1980.
North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University (NC State), public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina; founded 1887; largest university in the state; R1 institution; 15th chancellor Kevin Howell since 2025.
North Carolina Tar Heels
North Carolina Tar Heels: athletic teams of UNC-Chapel Hill, a founding ACC member with 28 varsity sports, 63 national titles, record 21 men's basketball Final Fours, and football now coached by Bill Belichick.
North Carolina Tar Heels football
North Carolina Tar Heels football: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's ACC program since 1888, five ACC titles, 39 bowl games (15-24), home at Kenan Stadium since 1927, coached by Bill Belichick since December 2024.
North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball
North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball: UNC Chapel Hill's ACC Division I program, six NCAA titles (1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, 2017), 21 Final Fours, Dean Smith's 879 wins, now coached by Michael Malone.
North Carolina Utilities Commission
The North Carolina Utilities Commission is the state agency regulating rates and services of investor-owned utilities, tracing its authority to a Railroad Commission created in 1891.
North Carolina-class battleship
The North Carolina class was a pair of United States Navy fast battleships, USS North Carolina and USS Washington, the first built after the 1922 treaty building holiday.
North Carolina's 11th congressional district
North Carolina's 11th congressional district, a western North Carolina U.S. House seat held by Republican Chuck Edwards since 2023 after Madison Cawthorn lost the 2022 primary; repeatedly redrawn in 2022, 2023, and 2025 redistrictings.
North Carolina's congressional districts
North Carolina's congressional districts: 14 U.S. House districts drawn by the General Assembly, most recently under Session Law 2025-95 for 2026; earlier maps include the 2023 plan producing a 10-4 Republican delegation and the court-ordered 2022 map that split seats 7-7.
North Cascades National Park
North Cascades National Park, established October 2, 1968 by Public Law 90-544, is a roadless wilderness park in northwestern Washington managed with Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas; it holds 312 glaciers, the most glaciated national park outside Alaska.
North Caspian swamp
North Caspian swamp: shallow-water wetlands, reed beds and deltas of the Caspian Sea's northern basin in Kazakhstan and Russia; under 5 m deep over two-thirds of its area, Volga-fed, Ramsar-protected, and retreating as sea level falls.
North Caucasian Emirate
The North Caucasian Emirate was a short-lived sharia monarchy proclaimed in September 1919 by the Sufi sheikh Uzun-Hajji in Chechnya and western Dagestan during the Russian Civil War, ending with his death in March 1920.
North Caucasus
North Caucasus: region of southern Russia north of the Greater Caucasus range, from Black Sea to Caspian Sea; also Severny Kavkaz. Home to 40+ ethnic groups and some forty languages; incorporated by Russia in the 18th-19th centuries after the Caucasian War (1817-1864).
North Caucasus-Transcaucasia Gas Pipeline
The North Caucasus-Transcaucasia Gas Pipeline, also called the Mozdok-Tbilisi-Yerevan pipeline, is a natural gas pipeline running from Mozdok in Russia through Georgia to Yerevan; commissioned in 1988, it is Armenia's sole route for Russian gas.
North Celestial Pole
The north celestial pole is the fixed point in the northern sky where Earth's rotational axis intersects the celestial sphere, currently marked by the nearby star Polaris.
North Central Province
North Central Province, Sri Lanka: a dry-zone province created in 1873, with Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa districts, 1,407,610 people (2024 census), two UNESCO ancient capitals, and a paddy economy dependent on tank irrigation.
North Channel
The North Channel is a sheltered stretch of water along the north shore of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada, cut off from the main lake by Manitoulin Island.
North Charleston
North Charleston, South Carolina: city incorporated 1972, first mayor John Bourne; named in 1912 for a Cooper River development scheme; naval base 1901-1996; third-largest SC city, 2020 population 114,852.
North Chennai Thermal Power Station
North Chennai Thermal Power Station is a coal-fired power station at Athipattu, about 35 km from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, with a total capacity of 2,630 MW.
North China Area Army
The North China Area Army was an Imperial Japanese Army field army formed at Tianjin in August 1937, the first to carry the area army designation.
North China Autonomy Movement
The North China Autonomy Movement, or North China Five-Province Autonomy Movement, was a Japanese-backed 1935 campaign to detach five northern Chinese provinces from Nationalist rule.
North China Famine of 1920-1921
The North China Famine of 1920-1921 (华北大饥荒) was a drought famine in five northern provinces of the Republic of China, killing an estimated 500,000 people by June 1921.