North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
positive pole positive magnetic pole north-seeking pole | the pole of a magnet that points toward the north when the magnet is suspended freely |
University of North Carolina | a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
islands of Langerhans isles of Langerhans islets of Langerhans | cell clusters in the pancreas that form the endocrine part of that organ, secrete insulin and other hormones |
North Atlantic Treaty | the treaty signed in by countries that established NATO |
Scandinavian Scandinavian language Nordic Norse North Germanic North Germanic language | the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland |
Norman-French Norman French Old North French | the medieval Norman dialect of Old French |
North Dravidian | a Dravidian language spoken primarily in eastern India |
North America | the nations of the North American continent collectively |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO | an international organization created in by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security |
North Atlantic Council NAC | a council consisting of permanent representatives of all the member countries of NATO, has political authority and powers of decision |
Arctic Arctic Zone North Frigid Zone | the regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole |
north | a location in the northern part of a country, region, or city |
Channel Islands National Park | a national park in California featuring sea birds and marine life |
North Cascades National Park | a national park in Washington that is an alpine wilderness area featuring gold rush and logging campsites |
Virgin Islands National Park | a national park in the Virgin Islands having tropical plants and animals, sandy beaches and coral reefs |
north celestial pole | the celestial pole above the northern hemisphere, near Polaris |
North Pole | the northernmost point of the Earth's axis |
north side | the side that is on the north |
North Temperate Zone | Temperate Zone between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer |
north-south direction | in a direction parallel with lines of longitude |
North American country North American nation | any country on the North American continent |
Aran Islands | three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay |
Cayman Islands | a British colony in the Caribbean to the northwest of Jamaica, an international banking center |
Cape Verde Islands | a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal |
Falkland Islands | a group of over islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina, a British Crown Colony |
Comoro Islands Iles Comores | three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar |
Leeward Islands | a group of islands in the eastern West Indies |
Windward Islands Windward Isles | a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies, the southern part of the Lesser Antilles |
Virgin Islands | a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in , owned by United States and Britain |
British Virgin Islands | more thannortheastern Virgin Islands ( inhabited), a dependent territory of the United Kingdom |
United States Virgin Islands American Virgin Islands VI | more thansoutheastern Virgin Islands, a dependent territory of the United States |
Galapagos Islands Galapagos | a group of islands in the Pacific off South America, owned by Ecuador, known for unusual animal life |
Fiji Islands Fijis | a group of more than islands ( inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific, larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs, smaller islands are coral |
Aland islands Aaland islands Ahvenanmaa | an archipelago of some , islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control |
Egadi Islands Aegadean Isles Aegadean Islands Isole Egadi Aegates | a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean |
Aleutian Islands Aleutians | an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska |
Mariana Islands Marianas Ladrone Islands | a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan, discovered by Magellan in |
Northern Marianas Northern Mariana Islands | a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam |
Caroline Islands | a long archipelago of more than islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines |
Marshall Islands | a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia |
Marshall Islands Republic of the Marshall Islands | a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands |
Gilbert Islands | a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii, formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in |
Tuvalu Ellice Islands | a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii |
Gilbert and Ellice Islands | a former British possession in Micronesia |
Sunda Islands | a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago |
Greater Sunda Islands | a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra |
Lesser Sunda Islands Nusa Tenggara | a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java, includes Bali and Timor |
Admiralty Islands | a group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago |
Bahamas Commonwealth of the Bahamas Bahama Islands | island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba, a popular winter resort |