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Northeast Greenland National Park
Northeast Greenland National Park (Danish: Nationalparken i Nord- og Østgrønland) is the world's largest national park, a 972,000 km² protected area in northeastern Greenland, established in 1974.
Northeast High School (Oakland Park, Florida)
Northeast High School (Oakland Park, Florida), a Broward County Public Schools magnet high school for grades 9-12 at 700 NE 56th Street; magnets in Alternative Energy, Industrial Biotechnology, and The Latin School; 1,717 students; B state grade; Hurricanes athletics. Distinct from Pinellas County's Northeast High (St. Petersburg).
Northeast India
Northeast India (North Eastern Region): eight states, Arunachal Pradesh to Tripura and Sikkim, with 5,484 km of international border, the Siliguri corridor as its sole land link, Assam dominating its GDP, and over 200 ethnic groups.
Northeast Maglev
Northeast Maglev, formally The Northeast Maglev, is a Maryland-based company promoting Japanese SCMaglev trains in the US Northeast Corridor; its Baltimore-Washington project's federal environmental review was canceled in 2025.
Northeast megalopolis
The Northeast megalopolis, also called BosWash or the Boston–Washington corridor, is the chain of metro areas from Boston to Washington, D.C. identified by Jean Gottmann in 1961, with about 50 million people in 103 counties.
Northeast Region, Brazil
The Northeast Region (Região Nordeste) is one of Brazil's five IBGE regions, covering nine states, 54 million people, the semiarid Caatinga, and 91 percent of national wind energy production.
Northeast Regional
The Northeast Regional is Amtrak's busiest intercity train service, running frequently along the Northeast Corridor between Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, carrying over 12 million passengers in fiscal year 2025.
Northeast Supply Enhancement
Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) is a proposed Transco pipeline expansion by Williams to deliver about 400,000 dekatherms per day of natural gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey to New York City.
Northeast Texas
Northeast Texas, also called the Ark-La-Tex corner, is the Red River and Piney Woods region around Texarkana, Paris, Tyler, and Longview, distinct from East and North Texas, with agribusiness, timber, and oil economies and TWDB water planning Region D.
Northeast US & Southeast Canada Atlantic Drainages
Northeast US & Southeast Canada Atlantic Drainages, FEOW ecoregion 118, temperate coastal rivers from Delaware to the Gaspé Peninsula, draining to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Bay of Fundy, with diadromous, saltwater-tolerant fish fauna.
Northeaster
Northeaster is an 1895 oil painting by Winslow Homer depicting storm waves breaking against the rocky Maine coast at Prouts Neck, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Northeastern Borneo
Northeastern Borneo, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 744, covers Sabah and North Kalimantan's Sebuku, Sembakung, and Sesayap basins; coastal rivers including the Kinabatangan, with 40 endemic fish species, over 25% of its fauna.
Northeastern Caatinga & Coastal Drainages
Northeastern Caatinga & Coastal Drainages is a freshwater ecoregion covering coastal river basins of northeastern Brazil, from Alagoas to Ceará, north of the São Francisco.
Northeastern elite accent
The Northeastern elite accent, or Boston Brahmin accent, was the non-rhotic, British-inflected upper-class speech of Boston's Brahmin families, related to Locust Valley lockjaw and now largely extinct.
Northeastern Mata Atlantica
Northeastern Mata Atlantica (Mata Atlântica Nordeste), FEOW freshwater ecoregion 328 in eastern Brazil, coastal basins from Rio Itabapoana to Rio Sergipe; 305 native fish species, 210 endemic, four bioregions, critical conservation gaps in the Rio Doce basin.
Northeastern migration to São Paulo
Northeastern migration to São Paulo is the large-scale movement of people from Brazil's Northeast to São Paulo, most intense from the 1950s to 1970s, driven by drought and industrialization.
Northeastern New Zealand
Northeastern New Zealand, also called the North Eastern bioregion, is a MEOW marine ecoregion on the upper North Island's east coast, including the Hauraki Gulf, influenced by the warm East Auckland Current and only 0.2% in marine reserves.
Northeastern State University
Northeastern State University (NSU), also known as Northeastern State, is a public university in Tahlequah, Muskogee, and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, tracing roots to the Cherokee National Female Seminary (1846/1851) and serving one of the largest American Indian student populations in the United States.
Northeastern Station
Northeastern Station, also called Northeastern Power Station, is a power plant in Oologah, Oklahoma, owned by Public Service Company of Oklahoma, an American Electric Power subsidiary.
Northeastern United States
The Northeastern United States is the U.S. Census Bureau region of nine states in the New England and Middle Atlantic divisions (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania), established in 1942, distinct from broader cultural definitions that add Delaware, Maryland, or Virginia.
Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978
The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978, often called the Blizzard of '78, was a nor'easter that struck New England on February 5-7, 1978, paralyzing Boston for about a week.
Northeastern University
Northeastern University, founded 1898 in Boston, is a private Carnegie R1 research university known for its 115-year cooperative education program, a 14-campus global system including the new New York City campus from the Marymount Manhattan merger, and record 106,907 applications for 2026-2027.
Northeastern University (China)
Northeastern University (东北大学, NEU) is a public Ministry of Education university in Shenyang, China, founded 1923; distinct from Boston's Northeastern University, it is a Project 985/211 and Double First-Class engineering school known for metallurgy and control science.
Norther (band)
Norther: Finnish melodic death/power metal band from Helsinki/Espoo, formed 1996 as Requiem, six albums 2002-2011, split 2012, classic lineup reuniting for Wacken Open Air 2027 with new music.
Northerly Swell
Northerly Swell (Northerly Swell Surfside Emporium, est. 2021) is a surf shop and rental business on Watts Slope, Whitley Bay, England, hiring surfboards, SUPs, kayaks, and bikes, distinct from the swell-direction term of the same name.
Northern advance policy
The Northern advance policy (북진 정책) was Goryeo's effort, begun by King Taejo in 918, to recover Goguryeo's former lands through fortress building, resettlement, and war.
Northern Alliance
Northern Alliance, or United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan: anti-Taliban coalition of Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazara factions led by Ahmad Shah Massoud, fought the Taliban 1996-2001, took Kabul November 13, 2001 with US support, and dominated the post-Taliban government.
Northern America
Northern America (M49 code 021) is a UN statistical sub-region of North America comprising the United States, Canada, Bermuda, Greenland, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Mexico belongs to Central America, not Northern America. Population 376.9 million (2023).
Northern Anatolia
Northern Anatolia is a freshwater ecoregion of temperate coastal rivers in Turkey, stretching from the Sakarya basin east to the Kizil and Kelkit basins, draining into the Black Sea.
Northern and Southern Administration system
The Northern and Southern Administration system (南北面官制) was the Liao dynasty's division of government into a northern face for Khitan affairs and a southern face for Chinese-style administration.