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North Vancouver (city)
City of North Vancouver: British Columbia municipality incorporated May 13, 1907, on the North Shore across from Vancouver, distinct from the District of North Vancouver. Compact Lonsdale-core city of 61,550 (2021) facing severe housing affordability limits and a 3,320-unit provincial housing target.
North Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve
North Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve (Ziemeļvidzemes biosfēras rezervāts), Latvia's only UNESCO biosphere reserve, established 1997; 475,514 ha along the Gulf of Riga, Salaca basin, raised bogs, and Baltic salmon rivers.
North Vietnam
North Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa, 1945-1976), was the communist state in Hanoi that fought France and the United States-backed South, ran land reform and collectivization, supplied the war through the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and renamed itself the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976.
North Wales
North Wales (Gogledd Cymru): northern region of Wales covering Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Wrexham; a Welsh Government economic region and Senedd electoral region with tourism-heavy coastal economy.
North Warning System
The North Warning System is a chain of radar stations across northern Alaska and Canada, built between 1986 and 1992 to replace the DEW Line for NORAD surveillance.
North Water Polynya
The North Water Polynya (Pikialasorsuaq, Sarvarjuaq) is the largest, most productive polynya in the Northern Hemisphere, an ~80,000 km² open-water area in northern Baffin Bay maintained by a Kane Basin ice arch, upwelling, and ice advection.
North Wawona (historical)
North Wawona (historical) is a historical USGS map place name in Mariposa County, California, marking the northern part of the Wawona settlement basin in Yosemite National Park, paired with South Wawona.
North West (musician)
North West (born 2013, Los Angeles) is an American rapper, singer, and producer, eldest child of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West; featured on "Talking" (Vultures 1), released debut EP N0rth4evr in May 2026.
North West (South African province)
North West (Bokone-Bophirima) is a South African province created in 1994 from Bophuthatswana and the western Transvaal, with capital Mahikeng, about 4.18 million people in 2025, a platinum- and maize-driven economy, and the country's highest expanded unemployment rate.
North West 200
North West 200: international motorcycle road race held each May on the 8.9-mile Triangle of closed public roads linking Portrush, Portstewart and Coleraine, Northern Ireland; first run 1929, mass-start format, speeds over 200 mph.
North West Counties Football League
North West Counties Football League (NWCFL): English non-league competition at Steps 5-6, founded 1982 from the Cheshire County League and Lancashire Combination merger; 61 clubs in three divisions in 2025-26.
North West Delhi
North West Delhi (उत्तर पश्चिम दिल्ली) is a revenue district of NCT of Delhi, headquartered at Kanjhawala, with sub-divisions Kirari, Rohini, and Nangloi Jat; the largest Delhi district by area and 2011 population.
North West England
North West England (ITL code TLD) is one of nine English regions, covering Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, and Cheshire. Population 7.4 million, third largest UK region; GDP per capita about 89% of the UK average.
North West Essex
North West Essex (E14001402) is a House of Commons county constituency in eastern England, created from the renamed Saffron Walden seat at the 2024 election; Kemi Badenoch (Conservative) is its MP, winning 35.6% with a 2,610 majority.
North West Highlands UNESCO Global Geopark
North West Highlands UNESCO Global Geopark, in Sutherland and Wester Ross, Scotland: designated 2004, Scotland's first UNESCO Geopark; ~2,000 km² of Lewisian Gneiss, Torridonian Sandstone, and the Moine Thrust, managed by a community-led charity.
North West Province
North West Province, a province of Sierra Leone created in 2017 from the Northern Province, capital Port Loko; districts Kambia, Karene, Port Loko; 15.7 percent of the 2021 census population.
North West Redwater Partnership
North West Redwater Partnership is an Alberta general partnership, formed in 2011, that designed, financed, built, and operates the Sturgeon Refinery near Redwater, northeast of Edmonton.
North West Shelf Project
Australia's largest oil and gas development, the North West Shelf Project produces LNG and domestic gas off Western Australia from the Karratha Gas Plant, operating since 1984.
North West Water
North West Water was the water and sewerage utility for North West England, created in 1974 as a regional water authority, privatized in 1989, and renamed United Utilities in 1996.
North Western Province, Sri Lanka
North Western Province (Wayamba; වයඹ පළාත) is a Sri Lankan province created in 1845 from the Western Province, with capital Kurunegala, districts Kurunegala and Puttalam, a 52-member Provincial Council, and 11.2 percent of national GDP.
North Wilkesboro Speedway
North Wilkesboro Speedway is a 0.625-mile NASCAR short track in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, opened 1947, host of 93 Cup races until 1996, revived in 2023 with the All-Star Race and a 2026 points race.
North Wollo Zone
North Wollo Zone (Amhara Region, Ethiopia): administrative zone of about 12,173 km² with capital Woldia and over 1.8 million people, marked by rugged highlands, mixed smallholder farming, recurrent drought, and recent conflict.
North Woods (novel)
North Woods is Daniel Mason's 2023 Random House novel of linked stories following one house in western Massachusetts across centuries, a New York Times and Washington Post Top Ten 2023 book and NBCC finalist.
North Wraxall
North Wraxall: Wiltshire parish (Upper Wraxall, Ford, Mountain Bower, The Shoe) on the Fosse Way, known for the Truckle Hill Roman villa excavated by Scrope 1859-60 and its 2000s bath-house digs.
North Yemen
North Yemen, the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), was the northwestern Yemeni state from the 1962 republican revolution that overthrew the Zaydi imamate until unification with South Yemen on 22 May 1990; distinct from the Marxist PDRY.
North York
North York, a district of Toronto and former municipality (Township 1922, borough 1967, city 1979, amalgamated 1998), known for North York Centre on Yonge Street, Mel Lastman, and Don Mills.
North York Moors
North York Moors: upland heather moorland area in north-east Yorkshire, England, protected as a National Park since 12 February 1952. Covers 1,436 km², holds England's largest continuous tract of upland heather moorland, and is an International Dark Sky Reserve.
North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is an English unitary authority created 1 April 2023, merging the county council with seven districts (Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby) under a devolution deal with York.
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
The North Yorkshire Moors Railway, also known as the North York Moors Railway, is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England, running steam trains from Pickering to Whitby.
North-American Department
North-American Department of Batumi Botanical Garden, Georgia: a 7.8 ha phytogeographic section of North American plants, with four parts, 217 recorded species, and the Liriodendron living bridge.