North (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Directions and generalised locations 2 Specific locations 2.1 Countries 2.2 Islands 2.3 States and provinces 2.4 Cities 2.5 Districts 3 Entertainment 4 Literature 5 Surnames 6 Others 7 See also

[edit] Directions and generalised locations

North may mean:

• North - a cardinal direction
• The North (Union (American Civil War)), U.S. states that remained loyal to the Union or states that had abolished slavery
• North Africa - a region in the north of the continent of Africa
• North America - a continent in the western hemisphere.
• North Borneo - a region in the north of Borneo island. North Borneo is comprised of Brunei and 2 states of Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.

[edit] Specific locations

• Cape North - the name both a community and a cape in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• North Cape - a cape in the island of Magerøya, Norway.
• North Magnetic Pole.
• North Pole, the northernmost point on the Earth.
• North River (New York-New Jersey), the southernmost portion of the Hudson River
• North Sea - part of Atlantic sea north of Europe.
• North (book) - a book by Donna Jo Napoli.

[edit] Countries

• North Korea, a country in East Asia

[edit] Islands

• North, an island in New Zealand
• North, an island in Seychelles
• North, an island in Kenya

[edit] States and provinces

• North Carolina, a state in the United States
• North Dakota, a state in the United States
• North Province (Cameroon)
• North Rhine-Westphalia, a state in Germany
• North Sumatra, a province in Indonesia
• North Sulawesi, a province in Indonesia
• North Maluku, a province in Indonesia

[edit] Cities

• North City, Illinois, USA
• North, South Carolina, USA
• Palmerston North, a city in New Zealand

[edit] Districts

• North City, a district in Shoreline, Washington, USA
• North City, a suburb in Dublin, Ireland
• North Delhi, a district in Delhi, India
• North Jakarta (Jakarta Utara), a district in Jakarta, Indonesia

[edit] Entertainment

• North (film), a 1994 movie starring Elijah Wood
• North (Imminent), a 1999 Imminent Starvation album.
• North (Something Corporate album), a 2003 Something Corporate album.
• North (Elvis Costello album), a 2003 Elvis Costello album.
• North (Logh album), a 2007 Logh album.
• A Paul Mounsey song.
• A Björk song.
• North, Australian boy band.

[edit] Literature

• North (literature), a 1960 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• North (poetry), a collection of poems by Seamus Heaney

[edit] Surnames

• Alfred John North, Australian ornithologist
• Billy North, American baseball player
• Dudley North, 4th Baron North, British nobleman
• Dug North, American artist
• Frederick North, Lord North, British Prime Minister
• Jay North, American actor
• Mike North, American sports talk radio show host
• Nigel North, English lutenist
• Oliver North (Oliver L. North), former US military figure, TV journalist
• Oliver D. North, designer for Scammell Lorries
• Peter North (academic) (Sir Peter North), former principal of Jesus College, Oxford and Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford
• Peter North (porn star), the screen name of a pornographic actor
• Peter John North, Canadian politician

[edit] Others

• North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) - a military organization in North America.
• North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) - a military alliance between countries in North America and Europe.
• Northbridge - an integrated circuit (IC) for interfacing the central processing unit (CPU) to memory, the southbridge (input/output controller), and possibly buses, such as PCI Express and AGP. The northbridge is sometimes called the memory controller or host bridge.

[edit] See also

• Far North
• Northern (subnational entity)
• The North

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