Places that start with N

Atlaspong knows 72 places that start with N: 12 countries, 1 continent, 16 states and regions, 43 cities. Names run from A to Z, such as N'Djamena, Nabha, Nadi. Did you know? N'Djamena: It sits where two rivers meet and was called Fort-Lamy until 1973.

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Countries

Namibia. Home to the Namib, often called the world's oldest desert.
Nauru. The third-smallest country in the world, it is a single island of just 21 square kilometres.
Nepal. The only national flag that is not a rectangle.
Netherlands. About a quarter of the country lies below sea level.
New Zealand. It has far more sheep than people.
Nicaragua. Has the largest lake in Central America.
Niger. Named after the Niger River, which flows nearby.
Nigeria. The most populated country in Africa.
North Korea. Mount Paektu, the highest peak on the Korean Peninsula, stands on its border with China.
North Macedonia. Lake Ohrid, on its border with Albania, is one of the oldest lakes in Europe.
Northern Ireland. Its Giant's Causeway is made of about 40,000 stone columns, most of them six-sided.
Norway. Famous for its deep fjords.

Continents

North America. It reaches from the icy Arctic to warm tropical shores and includes Canada, the United States and Mexico.

States and regions

Nagaland. It holds the Hornbill Festival every December, named after a big-beaked forest bird.
Nebraska. The fruity drink Kool-Aid was invented here, in the town of Hastings, in 1927.
Nevada. Spanish explorers named it Nevada, meaning snowy, after its snow-capped mountains.
New Brunswick. Its Bay of Fundy has some of the highest tides in the world, up to 16 metres.
New Hampshire. In 1776 it became the first American colony to set up its own government.
New Jersey. It is the most crowded US state for its size, and it is named after the island of Jersey.
New Mexico. Its capital, Santa Fe, is the oldest and the highest state capital in the US.
New South Wales. Its capital, Sydney, is home to the famous Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.
Newfoundland and Labrador. In 1901 the first radio signal sent across the Atlantic Ocean was received here.
North Carolina. The Wright brothers made the first powered aeroplane flight here, near Kitty Hawk, in 1903.
North Dakota. Its statehood papers were shuffled, so nobody knows whether it or South Dakota joined first.
Northern Territory. Uluru, a giant red rock sacred to its Aboriginal owners, stands in this territory.
Northwest Territories. Its capital, Yellowknife, is the only city in the whole territory.
Nova Scotia. Its name means New Scotland in Latin.
Nuevo Leon. Its capital, Monterrey, is one of Mexico's biggest cities and a great centre of industry.
Nunavut. Created in 1999 as a homeland for the Inuit, it is Canada's largest territory.

Cities

N'Djamena. It sits where two rivers meet and was called Fort-Lamy until 1973.
Nabha. It was the capital of the old princely state of Nabha.
Nadi. It has the largest Hindu temple in the Southern Hemisphere.
Nadiad. It is the birthplace of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
Nagaon. Batadrava Than, the birthplace of the saint Srimanta Sankardev, is in this district.
Nagasaki. It is a hilly port city in Japan that was long open to foreign trade.
Nagercoil. Its Nagercoil cloves are famous for their strong, sweet smell.
Nagoya. Its seaport is the largest in Japan, and its castle roof has golden fish statues.
Nagpur. It is famous for its sweet oranges, and it sits near the middle of India.
Nainital. It is built around an eye-shaped lake, high up in the Kumaon hills.
Nairobi. It has a national park with lions right next to the city.
Nakuru. Lake Nakuru nearby is famous for its huge flocks of pink flamingos.
Nalgonda. Its Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is one of the largest stone dams in the world.
Namakkal. It is called the Egg City because it produces so many eggs.
Nanded. It is home to Hazur Sahib, one of the five most sacred places of the Sikh faith.
Nanjing. Its name means southern capital, and it was the capital of several Chinese dynasties.
Nantes. It is the home town of Jules Verne, who wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
Naples. The birthplace of pizza.
Narnaul. Its Jal Mahal is a palace built in the middle of a lake.
Nashik. It is one of the four cities that host the giant Kumbh Mela, every 12 years.
Nashville. It has a full-size copy of the ancient Greek Parthenon, built in 1897.
Nassau. It sits on New Providence island, home to about three-quarters of all Bahamians.
Navi Mumbai. It is a planned city across the bay from Mumbai, built in the 1970s to ease crowding.
Navsari. It is one of the oldest homes of the Parsi community in India.
Naypyidaw. It became the capital of Myanmar in 2006 and was built as a planned city.
Neemuch. It sits in the Malwa region, right next to Rajasthan.
Nellore. Its name comes from nellu, the Telugu word for paddy rice.
New Delhi. The capital of India, designed in the early 1900s.
New Orleans. It is famous for jazz music, Creole food and its Mardi Gras festival.
New York. Its Central Park has 18,000 trees.
Newcastle. It is the largest coal-exporting harbour in the world.
Ngerulmud. It is the capital of Palau, a tiny settlement on the island of Babeldaob.
Niamey. The Niger River gives the city all of its water.
Nice. A sunny city on the French Riviera.
Nicosia. It is the southeasternmost capital city in the European Union.
Nizamabad. Also called Indur, it is a big centre of the turmeric trade.
Noida. Its name is short for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority.
Nottingham. It is linked to the legend of Robin Hood and nearby Sherwood Forest.
Nouakchott. It is one of the largest cities in the Sahara Desert.
Noumea. It is the largest French-speaking city in Oceania.
Novosibirsk. Its Opera and Ballet Theatre is the biggest theatre building in Russia.
Nuku'alofa. It is the capital of Tonga, a Pacific kingdom of more than 170 islands.
Nuremberg. It is famous for its Christmas market and for Lebkuchen, a spicy gingerbread.