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North-East Tobago Biosphere Reserve
North-East Tobago Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated 28 October 2020, Trinidad and Tobago's first; about 83,488 ha including the 1776 Main Ridge Forest Reserve, 1,774 species, and 15 communities.
North-Estonian Coastal Plain
North-Estonian Coastal Plain (Pohja-Eesti rannikumadalik), a narrow lowland between the North Estonian Klint and the Gulf of Finland; widest in Lahemaa (16-17 km), rising land uplift 2-3 mm/yr, till, cliff and sandy dune shores.
North-West Oil Pipeline Network
The North-West Oil Pipeline Network, also known as Nord-West Oelleitung or NWO, is a German crude oil pipeline system from Wilhelmshaven to refineries in northern and western Germany.
North-West Power Generation
North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) is a state-owned electricity generation company in Bangladesh, wholly owned by the Bangladesh Power Development Board and incorporated in 2007.
North-West Rebellion
The North-West Rebellion, also called the North-West Resistance, was a Métis and First Nations uprising against the Canadian government in 1885, led by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont.
North-Western Province, Zambia
North-Western Province, Zambia: one of Zambia's ten provinces, capital Solwezi, 11 districts, 125,826 km². Fastest-growing province (727,000 in 2010 to 1.28 million in 2022) driven by copper mines Kansanshi, Lumwana, and Kalumbila.
North–South and East–West Corridor
The North–South and East–West Corridor (NS-EW) is a pair of four-lane highway axes in India's National Highways Development Project, running Srinagar to Kanyakumari and Silchar to Porbandar.
North–South differences in the Korean language
North–South differences in Korean (문화어 vs 표준어): mutually intelligible varieties divided since 1945 by policy, differing most in vocabulary (38% of everyday words), loanwords, vowels, and orthography.
Northampton
Northampton, England: county town on the River Nene in the East Midlands, not the Massachusetts city. Saxon burh, Norman castle of Simon de Senlis, and historic center of English boot and shoe making.
Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States
Northampton County, Pennsylvania: county formed 1752 from Bucks County, eighth in the state, seat at Easton at the Delaware-Lehigh forks; home rule since 1978; 312,951 residents (2020).
Northampton Saints
Northampton Saints are a professional English rugby union club playing in the Premiership, based at Franklin's Gardens, Northampton. Also called the Saints; European champions 2000, Premiership winners 2014, 2024, and 2026, known for academy production and attacking play.
Northampton Town F.C.
Northampton Town F.C., 'the Cobblers' (after Northampton's shoemaking trade), an English football club founded in 1897, playing at Sixfields Stadium; one First Division season (1965-66), three league titles, relegated from League One in 2025-26.
Northampton, Massachusetts
Northampton, Massachusetts is a city of roughly 30,000 people on the Connecticut River in the Pioneer Valley, the Hampshire County seat and home to Smith College.
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire, an East Midlands county of England, has been run since April 2021 by two unitary authorities, North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire, which replaced the county council and seven districts.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is a novel by Jane Austen that satirizes Gothic fiction through Catherine Morland, a young reader of Gothic novels; written about 1798, it was published posthumously in 1817.
Northanger Abbey (2007 film)
Northanger Abbey (2007) is an ITV1 television film directed by Jon Jones, scripted by Andrew Davies for ITV's Jane Austen Season, starring Felicity Jones, JJ Feild, Carey Mulligan, and Liam Cunningham, filmed partly at Lismore Castle, Ireland.
Northbridge (computing)
The northbridge, also called the Memory Controller Hub, was the chip in classic two-chip PC chipsets that connected the CPU to memory, graphics, and the southbridge.
Northchurch
Northchurch Roman Villa, a small winged corridor Roman villa near the River Bulbourne, Hertfordshire; built mid 2nd century AD, abandoned c. 170, rebuilt after 339 with a bath suite, excavated 1973, now under houses.
NorthConnex
NorthConnex is a nine-kilometer twin tolled motorway tunnel in Sydney's north linking the M1 Pacific Motorway at Wahroonga to the Hills M2 Motorway at West Pennant Hills, opened in 2020.
Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army
The Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army (東北抗日聯軍) was the Communist-led guerrilla coalition that fought the Japanese occupation of Manchuria from 1936 until Japan's surrender in 1945.
Northeast Asia
Northeast Asia: region generally spanning Japan, Korea, northeast China, and the Russian Far East, sometimes Mongolia and Siberia; a great-power concentration with underdeveloped institutional regionalism, periodized as bipolar, unipolar, and post-unipolar eras.
Northeast blackout of 1965
The Northeast blackout of 1965 was a cascading power failure that began in Ontario on November 9 and left about 30 million people without power for up to 13 hours.
Northeast blackout of 2003
The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a cascading grid failure on August 14, 2003, that cut power to about 50 million people in the US and Ontario.
Northeast Caucasian languages
Northeast Caucasian (East Caucasian, Nakh-Daghestanian) languages: an indigenous Caucasus family of 30-40+ languages spoken in Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, known for rich case systems, ergative morphology, and widespread endangerment.
Northeast China (东北)
Northeast China (东北, Dōngběi), historically Manchuria, comprises Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces. A former industrial heartland turned rustbelt, it produces about one-fourth of China's grain while experiencing the country's most severe population decline and aging.
Northeast Conference
Northeast Conference (NEC), founded 1981 as the ECAC-Metro Conference and renamed 1988, is an NCAA Division I athletic conference in the northeastern US with 25 championship sports; its members include Fairleigh Dickinson, LIU, Saint Francis, Wagner, and Chicago State.
Northeast Corridor
The Northeast Corridor (NEC) is a 457-mile electrified passenger rail line from Washington, D.C., through Philadelphia and New York to Boston, the busiest rail corridor in North America.
Northeast Corridor Improvement Project
The Northeast Corridor Improvement Project (NECIP) was a federally funded program under the 1976 4R Act to rehabilitate the 456-mile Boston–New York–Washington rail line, meeting its Washington–New York speed goal but missing Boston's.
Northeast Flag Replacement
The Northeast Flag Replacement (東北易幟) was the 29 December 1928 declaration by which Zhang Xueliang adopted the Nationalist flag, ending Beiyang warlord rule and nominally unifying China under Nanjing.
Northeast Frontier Railway zone
Northeast Frontier Railway, abbreviated NFR, is a zone of Indian Railways headquartered at Maligaon in Guwahati, Assam, that has served India's entire northeastern region since 1958.