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Northern Nigeria Protectorate
The Northern Nigeria Protectorate was a British colonial state proclaimed on 1 January 1900 over the Sokoto Caliphate, governed by Frederick Lugard and amalgamated with Southern Nigeria in 1914.
Northern Ontario
Northern Ontario, the region of Ontario north of the French and Mattawa rivers, covers 90% of the province's land with 6% of its people; its economy rests on mining, forestry, and tourism, anchored by Greater Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
Northern Ontario Curling Association
Northern Ontario Curling Association (NOCA), governing body for curling in northern Ontario from 2007 to 2026; formed by amalgamation of four regional associations, a Curling Canada member since 1927, merged into Curling Ontario May 1, 2026.
Northern Outfall Sewer
The Northern Outfall Sewer is a major brick sewer in east London, built between 1860 and 1865 under engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette as part of London's Main Drainage.
Northern Palace, Babylon
The Northern Palace is a palace built by Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 604–562 BC) at Babylon, Iraq, standing outside the Inner City wall at the site's northern end.
Northern Patagonian Ice Field
The Northern Patagonian Ice Field, or Campo de Hielo Patagónico Norte, is a temperate ice cap in Chilean Patagonia covering about 3,700 km², with some 30 major outlet glaciers.
Northern People's Congress
The Northern People's Congress (NPC) was a conservative Nigerian political party that dominated the Northern Region and led Nigeria's First Republic government from 1960 until the January 1966 coup.
Northern Peruvian Oil Pipeline
The Northern Peruvian Oil Pipeline (Spanish: Oleoducto Norperuano) is a Petroperú crude oil pipeline in Peru built between 1974 and 1977, carrying oil from Amazonian fields to the Pacific coast.
Northern Philippine Islands
The Northern Philippine Islands is a freshwater ecoregion, FEOW number 755, covering most of the Philippine archipelago from Luzon to Negros, Bohol, and Siargao, while excluding Mindoro and Palawan.
Northern pike
Northern pike (Esox lucius, jackfish) is a large holarctic freshwater ambush predator prized as sport and commercial fish, invasive in 38 of 50 U.S. states and southcentral Alaska, where suppression removed nearly 40,000 pike from 2010 to 2020.
Northern Power Generation Company
Northern Power Generation Company, also called GENCO-III or NPGCL, is a state-owned Pakistani electricity generation company headquartered in Muzaffargarh, Punjab, with about 2,060 MW licensed capacity.
Northern Powerhouse Rail
Northern Powerhouse Rail is a planned program of new and upgraded railways improving east–west rail links between the major cities of northern England, set out in 2015.
Northern Premier League
Northern Premier League (NPL), English men's football league founded 1968; 88 clubs in four divisions (Premier Step 3, East/Midlands/West Step 4) covering Northumberland to Worcestershire; ten clubs reached the Football League.
Northern Province, Papua New Guinea
Northern Province (Oro Province), Papua New Guinea: coastal province with capital Popondetta, 22,800 km2, 273,950 people (2024 census), districts Ijivitari and Sohe, oil palm economy, Kokoda Track, Mount Lamington, and Divune 3 MW hydro project.
Northern Province, Rwanda
The Northern Province is one of the five provinces of Rwanda, bordering Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with about 2 million people across five districts including Musanze.
Northern Province, Sierra Leone
This administrative region of Sierra Leone borders the Republic of Guinea. Since 2017, it encompasses the districts of Bombali, Falaba, Koinadugu, and Tonkolili, accounting for 17.4% of the total population.
Northern Province, Sri Lanka
Northern Province, Sri Lanka: northernmost of nine provinces, capital Jaffna; five districts (Jaffna, Mannar, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Vavuniya); 1,150,148 people (5.3%, lowest) at 2024 census; predominantly Tamil, post-civil-war economy.
Northern Province, Zambia
Northern Province, Zambia: one of Zambia's ten provinces, capital Kasama, 12 districts, 75,567 km2, 1,105,824 people (2010 census), bordering DRC, Tanzania, and Lake Tanganyika.
Northern Qi Scholars Collating Classics
Northern Qi Scholars Collating Classics (北齐校书图) is a Song dynasty handscroll on silk attributed to Yang Zihua, showing the 556 collation of the classics under Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi.
Northern Qi sculpture
Northern Qi sculpture (北齊造像) is the Buddhist statuary of northern China's Northern Qi dynasty, 550–577, known for full-bodied Buddhas in thin, clinging Gupta-style robes, famously unearthed at Qingzhou.
Northern Qi Statutes (Ling)
The Northern Qi Statutes (北齐令) were the administrative statutes of the Northern Qi dynasty, promulgated in 564 in forty juan, mostly following Wei and Jin precedents.
Northern Railway zone
Northern Railway, also known as Northern Railways, is the largest zonal railway of Indian Railways by route kilometers and staff, created in 1952 and headquartered at Baroda House, New Delhi.
Northern Red Sea Region
Northern Red Sea Region (Semienawi K'eyih Bahri, ዞባ ሰሜናዊ ቀይሕ ባሕሪ) is one of Eritrea's six regions, centered on Massawa, with about 34,000 sq km, 600 km of Red Sea coastline, 250 islands, and reef-tourism and port economies.
Northern red snapper
Northern red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus), also called American red snapper or pargo colorado, a western Atlantic reef fish of family Lutjanidae; long-lived (to 57 years), 30-620 ft deep, managed under Gulf and South Atlantic rebuilding plans.
Northern Region, Ghana
The Northern Region is one of Ghana's sixteen administrative regions, with its capital at Tamale. It is Ghana's largest region by land area, with a savanna economy dominated by subsistence agriculture.
Northern Region, Malawi
The Northern Region of Malawi is the smallest and least populated administrative region, featuring the Nyika Plateau, mountains, and possessing Malawi's highest literacy rate.
Northern Region, Uganda
Northern Region, Uganda: one of Uganda's four regions (Acholi, Lango, West Nile, Karamoja), population 9,955,990 in 2024, single rainy season March-October, agro-pastoral economy, post-LRA-conflict recovery.
Northern Renaissance
Northern Renaissance: art movement of the late 14th–16th centuries north of the Alps (Low Countries, Germany, France, England), known for oil painting perfected by Jan van Eyck, meticulous realism, printmaking by Dürer and Holbein, and Reformation-era genre subjects.
Northern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia was a British territory in south-central Africa, north of the Zambezi, ruled by the British South Africa Company and then, from 1924, as a protectorate under Crown administration.
Northern Rising (2026)
Northern Rising (2026) was Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling's second annual pay-per-view, held October 3, 2026 at Toronto's Mattamy Athletic Centre, drawing 2,770 fans and later airing as a three-part TSN special.