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Nanthasen
Nanthasen, eldest son of King Siribunyasan, was king of Vientiane from 1781 to about 1795 as a Siamese vassal, warring with Luang Prabang before being recalled to Bangkok.
NantHealth, Inc.
NantHealth, Inc. is an American healthcare information technology company founded by Patrick Soon-Shiong, best known for its NaviNet portal connecting physician offices with health plans; it went public in 2016.
Nanticoke power station
Nanticoke power station, formally Nanticoke Generating Station, was an 8-unit, 4,000 MW coal-fired plant on Lake Erie in Ontario, once the world's largest; its 2013 closure completed Ontario's coal phase-out.
Nanto Bank
Nanto Bank (株式会社南都銀行) is a Japanese regional bank headquartered in Nara City, founded in 1934 by a merger of four local banks, holding roughly half of Nara Prefecture's deposit and loan markets.
Nantong, Jiangsu
Nantong Shi (南通市) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Jiangsu, China, on the north wing of the Yangtze River estuary facing Shanghai, with about 7.75 million residents.
Nantosuelta Vallis
Nantosuelta Vallis is a 320-km valley on Venus at 61.9S, 193E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for a Celtic river goddess; its sinuosity of 1.03 is the lowest among named Venusian channels.
Nantucket
Nantucket, also called "The Faraway Land" in Wampanoag, is an island, town, and county 30 miles off Cape Cod, Massachusetts: 14 miles long, a former whaling capital, now an upscale summer resort.
Nantucket Inlet
Nantucket Inlet, Antarctica (Nantucket, ensenada): ice-filled Weddell Sea inlet on Palmer Land's east coast, 6 by 13 miles, between Bowman and Smith Peninsulas, fed by Johnston Glacier.
Nantucket Lightship
The Nantucket Lightship was a United States lightship station, operating from 1854 to 1983 off Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts, the last lightship station in the country.
Nanum (king of Akkad)
Nanum, also written Nanium or Naniyum, was one of four rivals, with Igigi, Imi, and Elulu, who claimed the kingship of Akkad for three joint years after 2193 BC.
Nanumba Kingdom
The Nanumba Kingdom, also called Nanun or Nanung, is a traditional state in Ghana's Northern Region founded by Mmantambu, son of Naa Gbewaa, and ruled by the Bimbilla Naa from Bimbilla.
Nanuqsaurus
Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, the polar pygmy tyrannosaur, is a small tyrannosaurine dinosaur from ~69 Ma Prince Creek Formation, Alaska, described in 2014; about half T. rex size and the Arctic's top predator.
Nanushuk play
The Nanushuk play is an oil exploration play on Alaska's North Slope, with reservoirs in the Cretaceous Nanushuk Formation, reopened by the 2013 Pikka discovery.
Nanwucheng Gucheng Yizhi
南武城故城遗址 (Nanwucheng Ancient City Site), also called Wucheng, Nancheng, or Nancheng, is a Spring and Autumn to Northern Dynasties city site in Pingyi County, Linyi, Shandong; founded 554 BC as Lu's Wucheng seat, a 2013 national key cultural relics protection unit.
Nanxi
Nanxi (南戏), also called xiwen, was a form of Chinese musical drama arising in Wenzhou around the 1120s, regarded as the earliest mature form of Chinese opera.
Nanxiangcheng Site
Nanxiangcheng Site (南襄城遗址) is a Warring States to Han archaeological city site in Yuan'an County, Yichang, Hubei, a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level since 2013.
Nanya Technology
Nanya Technology is a Taiwanese DRAM manufacturer founded in 1995, holding roughly 1 to 2 percent of global DRAM revenue, far behind Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron.
Nanya–Beisi rivalry (Southern Court vs Northern Offices)
The Nanya–Beisi rivalry (南衙北司) was the late Tang struggle between the chancellor-led Southern Court and the eunuchs of the Northern Offices, ending in Zhu Wen's massacre of the eunuchs.
Nanyang Neixiang power station
Nanyang Neixiang power station is a coal-fired power station in Tuandong Town, Neixiang County, Nanyang, Henan, China, with its first 1,000 MW unit in production in 2020.
Nanyang Public School
Nanyang Public School (南洋公学) was a late Qing school founded in Shanghai by Sheng Xuanhuai, opening in 1897 and funded by merchant donations from two bureaus.
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), public technological university in Singapore, founded 1991 from Nanyang Technological Institute; 40,700 students, president Ho Teck Hua, QS 2026 rank 12th, Gaia zero-energy timber campus.
Nanyang Yahekou power station
Nanyang Yahekou power station (南阳鸭河口发电厂) is a 1,900 MW coal-fired power station at Yahekou Reservoir in Nanzhao County, Nanyang, Henan, China, operating as four units.
Nanyang, Henan
Nanyang Shi (南阳市), anciently Wan, is Henan's largest prefecture-level city by area (26,600 km²) at the Henan-Hubei-Shaanxi junction; 9.395 million residents (2025), third in provincial GDP, South-to-North Water Diversion source, home of Zhang Heng and Zhang Zhongjing.
Nanyao Yuan
南药园 (southern-drug gardens): medicinal-plant gardens of IMPLAD, chiefly the Xishuangbanna garden in Jinghong, Yunnan (founded 1959, ~20 ha, 1,200+ species) and the Xinglong garden in Wanning, Hainan (1960, 13+ ha), conserving tropical nan yao germplasm.
Nanyin
Nanyin, also called nanguan, is a traditional vocal and ensemble music genre from Quanzhou in southern Fujian, China, sung in Hokkien and regarded as one of China's oldest music genres.
Nanyue
Nanyue (南越国) was a kingdom centered on the Lingnan region, founded by Zhao Tuo after the Qin collapse, with its capital at Panyu, lasting ninety-three years through five kings.
Nanyue Huairang
Nanyue Huairang (南岳怀让) was a Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist master counted as a Dharma heir of Huineng, whose disciple Mazu Daoyi carried his line into the Linji and Guiyang schools.
Nanyue Liezhuan (Shiji 113)
Nanyue Liezhuan (南越列傳) is the 53rd biographical chapter of the Shiji, Sima Qian's history of the kingdom of Nanyue, covering its founding by Zhao Tuo through its fall to Han forces after 93 years.
Nanzhao
Nanzhao (南诏) was a kingdom in what is now Yunnan, first a Tang vassal state and then its enemy in wars that helped bring the dynasty down by 902.
Nanzhao Kingdom
The Nanzhao Kingdom (南诏国) was a state in Yunnan, southwest China, ruled by the Meng clan from 738 to 902, when a coup founded the Great Changhe state.