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Northampton
Northampton, England: county town on the River Nene in the East Midlands, not the Massachusetts city. Saxon burh, Norman castle of Simon de Senlis, and historic center of English boot and shoe making.
Northampton, Massachusetts
Northampton, Massachusetts is a city of roughly 30,000 people on the Connecticut River in the Pioneer Valley, the Hampshire County seat and home to Smith College.
Northeast megalopolis
The Northeast megalopolis, also called BosWash or the Boston–Washington corridor, is the chain of metro areas from Boston to Washington, D.C. identified by Jean Gottmann in 1961, with about 50 million people in 103 counties.
Northfleet
Northfleet is a Thames-side town in Gravesham, Kent, historically a major cement-making center from James Parker's 1792 Roman cement works, now part of Ebbsfleet Garden City regeneration.
Norwalk, California
Norwalk, California, a city in Los Angeles County 17 miles southeast of downtown LA; incorporated 1957, founded by the Sproul brothers in the 1870s; 2020 population 102,773, declining to an estimated 97,104 by 2025.
Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk is a coastal city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, on Long Island Sound, founded in 1651, with a 2020 population of 91,184 and an oystering and seaport heritage.
Norwich
Norwich is a cathedral city in Norfolk, England, on the Rivers Wensum and Yare, with a population around 145,591 and a famous medieval castle and cathedral.
Norwich, Vermont
Norwich, Vermont is a Windsor County town across the Connecticut River from Hanover, New Hampshire. Founded 1761; birthplace of Norwich University (1819, Alden Partridge), which moved to Northfield in 1866; now a high-cost Upper Valley town of about 3,600.
Norwood, Massachusetts
Norwood, Massachusetts: a Norfolk County town of 31,542 about 20 miles southwest of Boston, incorporated February 23, 1872 from South Dedham and part of Walpole; also called Tiot; known for its 1871 bell-ringing dispute, The Flats triple-deckers, and Norwood Memorial Airport.
Nossa Senhora do Socorro
Nossa Senhora do Socorro, Sergipe municipality in the Aracaju metropolitan region, Brazil's Northeast; second most populous city of Sergipe (192,330 in 2022 census, 205,611 estimated 2026), dormitory city of Aracaju, 155.018 km², IBGE code 2804805.
Notsé
Notsé, also spelled Notsie or Notse, is a town in south central Togo, about 90 km from Lomé, remembered as the ancestral home of the Ewe people.
Nottingham
Nottingham: East Midlands city in England, county town of Nottinghamshire, population 325,765 (mid-2025). Known for its sandstone caves, lace-making heritage, £11bn economy, two universities, and 2026-2028 local government reorganisation into two unitary councils.
Nouakchott
Nouakchott (نواكشوط), capital and largest city of Mauritania, created ex nihilo in 1957; grew from 500 people in 1960 to about 1.7 million, one third of the country, facing flood and coastal-dune hazards.
Nouans-les-Fontaines
Nouans-les-Fontaines (INSEE 37173) is a rural commune in Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, near Loches, with 672 inhabitants in 2023, declining population, and the Saint-Martin church holding a Jean Fouquet Pietà.
Nouméa
Nouméa, capital and largest commune of New Caledonia, founded 1854 as Port-de-France by Tardy de Montravel, renamed 1866; about 100,000 residents, Grand Nouméa 182,341 (2019), site of the 1998 Nouméa Accord and the May 2024 riots.
Novara, Piedmont
Novara (Novaria) is the capital of the Province of Novara in Piedmont, Italy, on the plain between Sesia and Ticino. 103,238 residents (2026); Roman municipium grid, Savoy city, Battle of Novara 1849, Antonelli's San Gaudenzio dome.
Novato, California
Novato, California: northernmost city in Marin County, about 29 miles north of San Francisco. Population about 52,000, incorporated 1960, council-manager government, SMART rail stops, median household income $115,736.
Novi Pazar, Central Serbia
Novi Pazar (Нови Пазар), southwestern Serbia city founded 1461 near old Ras; former Sanjak centre, ~80% Muslim, home to UNESCO Stari Ras and Sopoćani medieval monuments.
Novi Sad (Нови Сад)
Novi Sad (Нови Сад, Neusatz, Újvidék) is Serbia's second-largest city and the capital of Vojvodina on the Danube; founded as a free royal city in 1748, nicknamed the Serbian Athens, European Capital of Culture 2022.
Novo Mesto
Novo Mesto, Slovenia: city on the Krka River in Dolenjska, founded 1365 by Rudolf IV as Rudolfswert; seat of a city municipality of 38,678 (2026), home to Krka pharmaceuticals and the Revoz Renault plant.
Novokuznetsk
Novokuznetsk (Новокузнецк), formerly Kuznetsk and Stalinsk, is a Siberian industrial city in Kemerovo Oblast founded in 1618 as the Kuznetsk fort; a metallurgy and coal center of about 547,000 people on the Tom River.
Novomoskovsk
Novomoskovsk (Новомосковск), formerly Bobriki and Stalinogorsk, a chemical-industry city in Tula Oblast, Russia, about 220 km south of Moscow; founded 1930 around the Azot fertilizer plant, near the source of the Don River.
Novorossiysk (Новороссийск)
Novorossiysk (Новороссийск), a Black Sea port city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, founded 1838, Hero City 1973. Home to Russia's largest port, the Sheskharis oil terminal, and the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminus, repeatedly attacked by Ukrainian drones since 2023.
Novosibirsk (Новосибирск)
Novosibirsk (Новосибирск), formerly Novonikolaevsk, is Russia's third largest city, founded in 1893 on the Ob River during Trans-Siberian Railway construction; administrative center of Novosibirsk Region and the Siberian Federal District.
Nukuʻalofa
Nukuʻalofa is the capital and only city of Tonga, on Tongatapu's north coast. About 34,000 residents (2006), 1–2 m above sea level; its port handles over 95% of Tongan container trade.
Numazu
Numazu (沼津市) is a city in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on Suruga Bay south of Mount Fuji, gateway to the Izu Peninsula; a port, post station, and castle town, city status 1923, population about 183,000, known for dried horse mackerel and the View-O floodgate.
Nuoro
Nuoro (Nugoro), Sardinian city of about 33,000 at 550 m in the Barbagia, provincial capital since 1927, home of Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda, the ethnographic museum ISRE, and the Festa del Redentore.
Nurabad
Nurabad (نور آباد, Nūrābād): name of several places, chiefly Nurabad-e Mamasani, a city in Fars, Iran, near the Tol-e Nurabad mound (occupied 6000 BC to 50 BC) and the Parthian-or-Sasanian Mil-i Azhdaha tower; also places in Qom, Khuzestan, Samarkand, and Morena, India.
Nuremberg
Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Bavaria's second-largest city with about 547,000 residents, is the economic and cultural center of northern Bavaria, a former Free Imperial City, site of the Nazi party rallies, Nuremberg trials, and Germany's first railway.
Nusantara (city)
Nusantara, also known as Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN), is Indonesia's new national capital, built from 2022 in East Kalimantan on Borneo to replace Jakarta as the seat of government.