of, or relating to North America

A person from or living in North America.

(geography) An island, the northernmost of the two major islands making up New Zealand.

A marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Britain (in the west), Scandinavia (in the east) and Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France (in the south).

One of the 13 peripheries of Greece.

(cartography) A value relating to distance north of a standard latitude but with a constant added to make the numbers convenient. For instance, in UTM, the Southern Hemisphere is assigned negative degrees of latitude, but to avoid negative numbers in northings, a constant value of 10,000,000 is added so that negative numbers for northings do not occur.

A town in Tyne and Wear, England, on the north bank of the Tyne.

The northern part of the continent of Africa, usually referring to specifically the regions north of the Sahara Desert where Arabic is widely spoken as a mother tongue. / Synonym of Maghreb.

(astronomy) A star positioned circumpolar to the North Pole. / A village in New South Wales, Australia. / A hamlet in the County of Northern Lights, Alberta, Canada.

(figuratively) An aim or a goal, a dependable guiding light in a quickly changing world.