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Nashville International Airport

Nashville International Airport (BNA), opened in 1937 as Berry Field, is the largest airport in Tennessee and the region's only large hub, with 115 nonstop destinations.

Nasik MAHAGENCO Thermal Power Station

Nasik MAHAGENCO Thermal Power Station, also called the Nashik Thermal Power Station or Eklahare power station, is a 630 MW coal-fired plant owned by Mahagenco at Eklahare, near Nashik, Maharashtra, India.

Nasik RattanIndia Thermal Power Project

The Nasik RattanIndia Thermal Power Project is a 1,350 MW coal-fired power station near Sinnar in Maharashtra, India, commissioned in 2017 and acquired by NTPC and MAHAGENCO in 2026.

Nasiriyah Field

Nasiriyah Field (الناصرية), also written Nassiriya, is a large onshore oil field in southern Iraq, about 200 km northwest of Basra, with estimated recoverable reserves of 4.4 billion barrels.

Nasiriyah Thermal power station

Nasiriyah Thermal power station (محطة كهرباء الناصرية الحرارية) is an 840 MW heavy-fuel-oil power station in Nasiriyah, Iraq, built with Soviet help in the 1970s.

Nasr Oil Field

Nasr Oil Field, also called Al Nasr, is an offshore oil field in Abu Dhabi waters, discovered in 1971 and producing first oil in 2015.

NASSCOM

NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies) is India's trade association for the IT-BPM industry. Founded in 1988, it has about 3,000 member firms.

Nasser-Brega Oil Pipeline

The Nasser-Brega Oil Pipeline, also known as Zaltan-Al Brayqah, is a crude oil pipeline in Libya completed by Esso in October 1961, the country's first.

Nassir Navab

Nassir Navab, born 1960, is a computer scientist working in computer vision and medical augmented reality, and a full professor at the Technical University of Munich since 2003.

Nastran

Nastran (NASA Structural Analysis) is a general-purpose finite element analysis program for structural analysis, developed under NASA sponsorship in the 1960s and released to the public in 1970.

Nástup-Tušimice Coal Mine

The Nástup-Tušimice Coal Mine (Doly Nástup Tušimice) is a surface brown coal mine in the Ústí Region of the Czech Republic, operated by Severočeské doly.

Natalie Artzi

Natalie Artzi is a biomaterials scientist working on hydrogels, structural nanomedicines, and immune engineering for cancer therapy at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute.

Natalie Stingelin

Natalie Stingelin, who also publishes as Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann, is a materials scientist in organic electronics and chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech since 2022.

Natanz Nuclear Facility

The Natanz Nuclear Facility, also known as the Shahid Ahmadi Roshan Nuclear Facility, is Iran's largest uranium enrichment complex, built underground about 220 km southeast of Tehran.

Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram

Arulmigu Thillai Natarajar Temple, Chidambaram (Thillai): Tamil Nadu Shiva temple where Nataraja as Sabhanayaka presides over empty space, the Chidambara Rahasya, representing akasha among the Pancha Bhoota Sthalams, with 108 karana sculptures and Dikshitar priests.

Natchez (steamboat)

The Natchez is a steam-powered sternwheel riverboat offering daily jazz cruises on the Mississippi River at New Orleans. Launched in 1975, she is the ninth steamboat named Natchez.

Natchez Trace Parkway

The Natchez Trace Parkway is a 444-mile National Park System unit following the historic Natchez Trace travel corridor from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee, established in 1938.

NATGRID

NATGRID (National Intelligence Grid) is an Indian intelligence-sharing platform under the Ministry of Home Affairs, conceived after the 2008 Mumbai attacks and operational since 2020 for counter-terrorism investigations.

Nathalie Tufenkji

Nathalie Tufenkji is an environmental engineer and professor of chemical engineering at McGill University in Montreal, known for research on microplastics, urban runoff, and water treatment.

Nathan E. Promisel

Nathan E. Promisel (1908–2005) was an American metallurgical engineer known as the "father of titanium" who served as chief materials scientist of the Naval Air Systems Command from 1940 to 1966.

Nathan Gettings

Nathan Dale Gettings is an American software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Palantir Technologies in 2003, built PayPal's anti-fraud systems, and later co-founded Affirm and the robotics company RoboteX.

Nathan Lazarus

Nathan Lazarus is an electrical engineer and University of Delaware associate professor who spent a decade at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Nathan M. Newmark

Nathan M. Newmark (1910–1981) was an American structural engineer at the University of Illinois who created the Newmark method and received the 1968 National Medal of Science.

Nathaniel B. Nichols

Nathaniel B. Nichols (1914–1997) was an American control engineer who created the Nichols chart, co-created the Ziegler–Nichols PID tuning rules, and co-wrote Theory of Servomechanisms.

Nathaniel B. Palmer

The RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer was an American icebreaking research vessel that served the U.S. Antarctic Program from 1992, the nation's first commercial icebreaking research ship, until its lease was terminated in October 2025.

NatHERS

NatHERS is the Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme, an Australian government program giving homes a 0-to-10-star thermal rating used to meet National Construction Code efficiency requirements.

Nathpa Jhakri hydroelectric plant

Nathpa Jhakri Hydroelectric Station is a 1,500 MW run-of-the-river hydropower plant in northern India. Located on the Sutlej River in Shimla district, it is operated by SJVN Limited.

National Academy of Engineering of Korea

The National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) is South Korea's national academy for engineering, founded in 1996 to elect distinguished engineers and advise the government.

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a US federal agency founded in 1915 to promote aeronautical research; its laboratories became NASA on October 1, 1958.

National aerodrome registries outside IATA and ICAO

A national aerodrome registry is an official record kept by a country's aviation authorities of its airports, covering identifiers, licensing, and aerodromes the international systems ignore.