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Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth north of the Equator, holding most of Earth's land: North America, Europe, northern Africa, and most of Asia.
Northern Hormuz Drainages
Northern Hormuz Drainages (FEOW ecoregion 451), Iranian coastal rivers draining the southern Zagros to the Strait of Hormuz; main rivers Rasul, Mehran, Kul, Minab; home to endemic Iranocichla cichlids and hot-spring Aphanius ginaonis.
Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University (NIU), public R2 research university in DeKalb, Illinois; chartered 1895, opened 1899 as Northern Illinois State Normal School; 15,811 students, Higher Learning Commission accredited, led by President Lisa Freeman.
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland, also known as Tuaisceart Éireann, is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom, occupying the northeastern part of the island of Ireland.
Northern Ireland Assembly
The Northern Ireland Assembly (Stormont) is Northern Ireland's devolved legislature, created by the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the Northern Ireland Act 1998. 90 MLAs elected by STV share power in a consociational system with the d'Hondt Executive.
Northern Ireland Executive
The Northern Ireland Executive is the devolved power-sharing government of Northern Ireland, led jointly by a First Minister and deputy First Minister with eight departmental ministers, created by the 1998 Belfast Agreement.
Northern Ireland national football team
Northern Ireland national football team: men's team of the Irish FA (founded 1880), successor of the all-island Ireland side; three World Cups (1958, 1982, 1986), first EURO in 2016, home at Windsor Park, Belfast.
Northern Ireland Office
Northern Ireland Office (NIO), UK ministerial department created in March 1972 after direct rule began; the Government's centre of expertise on Northern Ireland, led by the Secretary of State, with offices in Belfast and London.
Northern Ireland peace process
Northern Ireland peace process: negotiations and ceasefires from the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement to the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, ending the Troubles and creating power-sharing institutions.
Northern Ireland Protocol
The Northern Ireland Protocol, now amended by the Windsor Framework, is the Withdrawal Agreement protocol keeping Northern Ireland in the UK customs territory yet effectively in the EU single market for goods, avoiding a hard Irish border.
Northern Irish literature
Northern Irish literature is fiction, poetry, and drama by writers from Northern Ireland or set there; its standing as distinct, not Irish or British, has been contested since partition in 1920.
Northern Italy
Northern Italy (Italia settentrionale): the Alpine and Po Valley portion of Italy, historically a zone of city-states like Venice and Milan, Austrian Lombardy-Venetia rule, and Italy's economic core, led by Lombardia.
Northern Kentucky University
Northern Kentucky University (NKU), a public university in Highland Heights, Kentucky, near Cincinnati. Founded 1946 as a UK extension center, university since 1976; six colleges including Chase law school, about 15,000 students, NCAA Division I Norse athletics.
Northern krill
Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica), sole species of its genus, is a 4-5 cm euphausiid of boreal North Atlantic and Mediterranean shelf and slope waters, key prey for fish, squid, whales, and seabirds, with no established fishery.
Northern Learning
Northern Learning (北学) is the classical-learning tradition of China's Northern dynasties (420–589), contrasted with Southern Learning; its leading figure was Xu Zunming, and it was absorbed by the south after the Sui reunification.
Northern LGPS (NLGPS)
Northern LGPS is the asset pool serving the Greater Manchester, Merseyside, and West Yorkshire Local Government Pension Scheme funds, which held £61.4 billion for over 870,000 members in 2024.
Northern Liang
Northern Liang (北凉) was a state of China's Sixteen Kingdoms period, founded in 397, ruled by the Juqu family, and conquered by Northern Wei in 439.
Northern Light Venture Capital
Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC, 北极光创投) is a Beijing-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Feng Deng and Jeffrey D. Lee, investing in early-stage technology and healthcare companies in China and the United States.
Northern Lights (carbon capture and storage)
Northern Lights is a Norwegian joint venture of Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies that ships CO₂ from European capture sites and injects it about 2,600 meters under the North Sea seabed.
Northern line
The Northern line, once called the Edgware, Highgate and Morden Line, is a busy London Underground line running 58 km from Morden to three northern termini.
Northern Mariana Islands
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a self-governing U.S. commonwealth of 14 islands north of Guam with capital Saipan; governed by a 1975 Covenant, tourism-based economy, nonvoting House Delegate since 2008.
Northern Mazghuna pyramid
The Northern Mazghuna pyramid is an unfinished royal pyramid at Mazghuna, south of Dahshur, Egypt, dating to the late Middle Kingdom, with no identified owner.
Northern Metropolis
The Northern Metropolis (北部都会区) is a planned 300-square-kilometer development area in Hong Kong's northern New Territories, announced by Carrie Lam in 2021 and built around innovation and technology with neighboring Shenzhen.
Northern Mexico
Northern Mexico: the arid US-border region (Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and neighbors), a colonial frontier of mobile indigenous peoples, maquiladora manufacturing belt, cattle-export and drought-prone ranching economy with a distinct norteño identity.
Northern Michigan University
Northern Michigan University is a public university in Marquette, Michigan, founded in 1899 to serve the Upper Peninsula, offering about 170 programs to roughly 7,500 students.
Northern Mindanao
Northern Mindanao (Region X) is a Philippine administrative region in north-central Mindanao with five provinces, regional center Cagayan de Oro City, 5.18 million people (2024), and a P1.095 trillion GRDP in 2025.
Northern mockingbird
Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), a Mimidae songbird resident across the continental U.S. and Mexico, known for lifelong song learning, roughly 200-song repertoires, mimicry of birds and frogs, and bold nest defense.
Northern Montney gas field
The Northern Montney gas field is the northern portion of the Montney Formation gas play in northeast British Columbia, producing gas and condensate from Lower Triassic siltstones by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
Northern Natural Gas
Northern Natural Gas is an Omaha, Nebraska-based interstate natural gas pipeline company owned by Berkshire Hathaway Energy, operating the largest US gas pipeline system by miles.
Northern Ndebele people
The Northern Ndebele people, also known as the Matabele, are a Nguni-speaking people of southwestern Zimbabwe who speak isiNdebele and make up about 15 percent of the country's population.