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New Lanark
New Lanark, a Scottish cotton mill village on the River Clyde founded in 1785 by David Dale and Richard Arkwright, became Robert Owen's model industrial community (1800–1825) and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
Newbald
Newbald (North and South Newbald), East Riding of Yorkshire village: Old English 'new building'; Domesday manor of the Archbishop of York; Middle Saxon coin site, Roman villa, Norman St Nicholas church.
Newtok, Alaska
Newtok, Alaska, a Yup'ik village on the Ninglick River, relocated 9 miles to Mertarvik on Nelson Island (2019–2024) after erosion and permafrost thaw destroyed the site, costing over $160 million.
Newton St. Loe
Newton St. Loe, Somerset estate village in Bath and North East Somerset, 5 km west of Bath, owned by the Duchy of Cornwall; home to Newton Park, the Grade I Leadbetter house, Capability Brown parkland, and Bath Spa University's main campus.
Ngerulmud
Ngerulmud is the capital of Palau, a government complex in Melekeok State on Babeldaob island that replaced Koror on 7 October 2006 under the 1981 Constitution, with a near-zero resident population.
Nghi Sơn
Nghi Sơn (Nghi Sơn) is a coastal town in southern Thanh Hóa, Vietnam, home to the Nghi Son Economic Zone, the $9 billion NSRP refinery (200,000 bbl/day), 600 MW and 1,200 MW power plants, and a 100,000 DWT deep-water port; population about 307,304 (2026).
Nimy
Nimy is a district of Mons, Hainaut, Belgium, merged with the city in 1971; a former Borinage village of about 4,600 people known for its 1789 Vieux-Nimy faience works and the 1914 Battle of Mons fighting. Distinct from Nimy Resources, the Australian ASX:NIM gallium explorer.
Ninstints
Ninstints (SG̱ang Gwaay Llnagaay) is an abandoned nineteenth-century Haida village on Anthony Island, British Columbia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its carved memorial poles.
Notodden
Notodden, a town in Øst-Telemark, Norway, and its football club Notodden FK (founded 1999 from Snøgg and Heddal merger), which reached the Norwegian second tier in 2006 and 2017 and now plays in 2. divisjon.
Notre Dame, Indiana
Notre Dame, Indiana is a census-designated place in St. Joseph County comprising the University of Notre Dame campus near South Bend; 7,234 residents (2020), founded 1842 by Edward Sorin, chartered 1844.
Nova Černa
Nova Černa (Nova Cherna), a village near Tutrakan in northern Bulgaria, site of the Kaleto fortifications: a Roman quadriburgium, a 6th-century castellum, and an earth fort, possibly ancient Kynton.
Nové Zámky
Nové Zámky (Érsekújvár), town in Nitra Region, southwestern Slovakia, founded 1545 as an anti-Turkish fortress; hexagonal bastion fortress 1573–1581, taken by Ottomans 1663, retaken 1685, fortress demolished 1724; distinct from the Czech cadastral area of the same name in Křinec.
Nový Šaldorf
Nový Šaldorf (Neuschallersdorf), wine village in Znojmo District, South Moravia; founded about 1580, merged with Sedlešovice in 1955; known for Modré sklepy cellars and a 5th-century necropolis excavated 1923–24.
Nowa Wieś Wrocławska
Nowa Wieś Wrocławska (German: Neudorf), village in Kąty Wrocławskie commune near Wrocław, Poland. Former Johanniter estate secularized 1810; old commune cemetery documented 1866; major multi-period Neolithic and Iron Age archaeological sites.
Nucleated settlement
Nucleated settlement, also called clustered settlement, is a rural settlement pattern where buildings cluster around a center such as a church, green, or water source, with farmland outside; contrasted with dispersed and linear patterns.
Nuneaton
Nuneaton is a market town in northern Warwickshire, England, named after a 12th-century Benedictine nunnery. Largest Warwickshire town (about 88,000 people), industrial through ribbon weaving, coal mining, and brickmaking, and birthplace of George Eliot.
Nutaarmiut
Nutaarmiut, a Greenlandic settlement (bygd) on Nutaarmiut Island in Baffin Bay, Avannaata municipality, north of Upernavik; name means 'the people in the new place'; about 30-38 inhabitants, economy based on halibut fishing and sealing.
Nutbush, Tennessee
Nutbush, Tennessee: unincorporated Haywood County farming community on Highway 19, 12 miles west of Brownsville, settled early 1800s; childhood home of Tina Turner, subject of "Nutbush City Limits."
Nyack, New York
Nyack, New York: a village in Clarkstown, Rockland County, on the Hudson River, incorporated 1883; population about 7,500. Known for its walkable arts downtown, riverfront, no in-town rail (Hudson Link bus to Tarrytown), and history as Rockland County's commercial center.
Nyrup
Nyrup is the name of several Danish villages, including Nyrup Hegn near Helsingør with Frederik II's 1584 Kongevej and Ole Rømer's mile mound, Nyrup in Odsherred with the Birkehøj passage grave, and a Danish surname.
Oatman, Arizona
Oatman, Arizona, a former gold-mining boomtown in the Black Mountains of Mohave County on Historic Route 66, once home to 10,000 people and over 1.8 million ounces of gold, now a living ghost town of about 100 residents famous for wild burros and Sitgreaves Pass.
Oberentfelden
Oberentfelden (Endiveld, 965) is a municipality in the Aarau district, canton Aargau, Switzerland, in the lower Suhre valley; 9,107 residents in 2025, Roman villa rustica, Bernese rule 1415-1798, Walther brush factory heritage.
Oberflorstadt
Oberflorstadt (Ober-Florstadt), Hesse, Germany: village in Florstadt, Wetteraukreis, site of Roman cohort fort (Kastell Ober-Florstadt) on the Wetterau line of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, 2.8 ha, garrisoned by Cohors XXXII voluntariorum, with vicus, bath, and Mithraeum.
Oberlienz
Oberlienz, a municipality in Lienz District, Tyrol, Austria, northwest of Lienz at the Iseltal entrance; 1,487 inhabitants, villages Oberlienz, Oberdrum, Glanz; Roman villa rustica at Lesendorf, 1809 church fire, Helenenkirchl.
Ocracoke, North Carolina
Ocracoke, North Carolina: village on a 16-mile Outer Banks barrier island in Hyde County, ferry-only access, home of the 1823 Ocracoke Lighthouse (oldest working in NC), Silver Lake harbor, and heavy hurricane and erosion exposure.
Ohlone villages
Ohlone villages were the permanent and seasonal settlements of the Ohlone peoples of the San Francisco Bay Area, organized into about 50 independent tribes before the missions.
Ohništ'any
Ohništ'any (Ohnišťany), Czech village in Hradec Králové District with a Roman-period cemetery recorded in Barrington Atlas 12 I2 and Pleiades; eight graves, Roman-provincial imports, first mentioned 1318.
Oia, Greece
Oia is a village on the northern tip of Santorini, Greece, famed for caldera sunsets and cave houses. A former captains' village, it is now a protected settlement at the center of the island's overtourism management.
Oketeyeconne, Georgia
Oketeyeconne was a historic Creek (Muscogee) town on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River in Clay County, Georgia, north of Fort Gaines; abandoned in the 1800s and now submerged under Walter F. George Lake.
Old West Town
Old West Town: frontier-era American settlements and their modern counterparts, including preserved towns like Deadwood and Tombstone, ghost towns like Calico and Jerome, movie-set towns like Pioneertown, and Wild West theme parks such as High Chaparral in Sweden.