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Northern and Southern Chancelleries
The Northern and Southern Chancelleries (北南枢密院) were the paired supreme governing bodies of the Liao dynasty, created by Emperor Shizong in 947: the Northern handled Khitan military affairs, the Southern Chinese civil affairs.
Northern and southern China
Northern and southern China, divided by the Qinling–Huaihe line, differ in climate, rice versus wheat farming, language, food, and psychology, with the south now holding most population and GDP.
Northern and Southern dynasties (南北朝)
Northern and Southern dynasties (南北朝), 420–589: period of divided China after the Eastern Jin. Southern Song, Qi, Liang, Chen at Jiankang; Northern Wei through Northern Zhou in the north; ended by Sui reunification in 589.
Northern and Southern School
The Northern and Southern School (南北宗论) is a theory of Chinese landscape painting proposed by Dong Qichang, dividing painters into a literati Southern and a professional Northern school.
Northern Annam
Northern Annam (FEOW ecoregion 760) is a freshwater ecoregion of coastal rivers draining the eastern Annamite Range in Vietnam from the Deo Hai Van Pass to the Gianh River, with endemic Schistura loaches.
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona University, founded in 1899 as Northern Arizona Normal School, is a public research university in Flagstaff, Arizona, one of the state's three public universities, designated R1 in 2025.
Northern Army
The Northern Army (北军) was the Han dynasty garrison force guarding the capital, paired with the Southern Army; Zhou Bo's entry into its camp toppled the Lü clan.
Northern Attitude
Northern Attitude is a 2022 Noah Kahan song, also known as a Hozier duet, opening the album Stick Season. Written with Gabe Simon in about 40 minutes, it is about isolation in rural Vermont and the chorus line "raised on little light."
Northern Bahr al Ghazal
Northern Bahr al Ghazal (Wilāyat Shamāl Baḩr al Ghazāl) is a northwestern South Sudan state with capital Aweil, five Aweil-named counties, Dinka agro-pastoralists, 720,898 people (2008), and borders on South Darfur and Western Kordofan.
Northern Baltic Drainages
Northern Baltic Drainages, FEOW ecoregion 406, a Palearctic polar-freshwaters unit covering Fennoscandian rivers and lakes draining to the Baltic Sea and eastern North Sea, with Vänern, Saimaa, and the endemic storsik whitefish.
Northern Beaches
Northern Beaches: Sydney coastal region and NSW local government area from Manly to Palm Beach, formed in 2016 by amalgamating Manly, Pittwater and Warringah councils; 263,554 people (2021), beach tourism economy, erosion hotspots, and constrained transport links.
Northern blot
The Northern blot is a molecular biology technique that separates RNA by gel electrophoresis and detects a chosen sequence with a labeled probe, reporting a transcript's size and abundance.
Northern bobwhite
Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), also bobwhite quail, a nonmigratory New World quail of eastern North America and Mexico, in steep decline (over 80% in 60 years), IUCN Near Threatened, managed with prescribed fire.
Northern Border Gas Pipeline
The Northern Border Gas Pipeline is a 1,412-mile United States interstate natural gas pipeline running from the Canadian border in Montana to Midwest markets in Illinois and Indiana.
Northern British Isles
Northern British Isles, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 402, a temperate coastal rivers region covering Scotland, Ireland, northern islands, Isle of Man, and Faroe Islands, with nearly 20 endemic salmonid fishes and glaciation-shaped, peat-rich freshwaters.
Northern Bureau of Military Affairs (Liao)
The Northern Bureau of Military Affairs (北枢密院) was the Liao dynasty's main military agency, controlling all Khitan armies and deciding military affairs before reporting to the throne.
Northern California
Northern California (NorCal) is the northern portion of California, anchored by the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, with no official southern boundary, a $875 billion megaregional economy, redwood North Coast, and Gold Rush heritage.
Northern Canada
Northern Canada, or the North, comprises Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut: about 40% of Canada's landmass, 0.3% of its population, warming three times the global average, with broader definitions adding Inuit Nunangat and provincial norths.
Northern Cape
Northern Cape: South Africa's largest province by area (372,889 km²) and least populated (1,355,946 in Census 2022), capital Kimberley, semi-desert economy based on mining, agriculture, and renewable energy.
Northern cardinal
Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), also redbird or cardenal rojo, a non-migratory red-crested songbird of eastern North America; about 130 million birds, increasing 0.32% yearly, IUCN Least Concern, state bird of seven U.S. states.
Northern Catalonia
Northern Catalonia (Catalunya Nord): Catalan-speaking territory of Roussillon, Conflent, Vallespir, Capcir and part of Cerdanya ceded by Spain to France in the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees, now Pyrénées-Orientales.
Northern Central Asian Highlands
Northern Central Asian Highlands, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 628, covers the upper Syr Darya and Talas basins in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, with endemic sculpins and the Syr Darya sturgeon.
Northern Chancellery
The Northern Chancellery (北宰相府) was the head office of the Liao dynasty's northern administration, governing the imperial ordos, tribes, and vassal peoples, with chancellors drawn hereditarily from the imperial and consort clans.
Northern Cheyenne Exodus
The Northern Cheyenne Exodus (1878–1879) was the Northern Cheyenne's flight north from Indian Territory toward their Montana homeland, led by the chiefs Morning Star and Little Wolf.
Northern Coalfields
Northern Coalfields Limited, or NCL, is an Indian state-owned coal mining company headquartered at Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, operating ten mechanized opencast mines across Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
Northern Cook Islands
Northern Cook Islands (Pa Enua Tokerau): chain of low coral atolls (Penrhyn/Tongareva, Manihiki, Rakahanga, Pukapuka, Nassau, Suwarrow, Palmerston) in the Cook Islands; 21 km², about 1,041 people (2016), remote, water-insecure, with a planned NZ$101.5m Tongareva wharf.
Northern corn leaf blight
Northern corn leaf blight (NCLB), a maize disease caused by Exserohilum turcicum (Setosphaeria turcica), marked by cigar-shaped leaf lesions, 15-50% yield losses, Ht resistance genes, and fungicide or hybrid management.
Northern Courier Pipeline System
The Northern Courier Pipeline System is a 90-kilometer dual pipeline in Alberta transporting heated bitumen from the Fort Hills oil sands mine to Suncor's East Tank Farm.
Northern Court
The Northern Court (北朝) was the imperial court established at Kyoto in 1336, when Ashikaga Takauji enthroned Emperor Kōmyō, rivaling the Southern Court until their union in 1392.
Northern Cross
The Northern Cross is an unofficial asterism formed by Cygnus's brightest stars, including Deneb and Albireo, laid along the Milky Way and best seen around September.