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- The following places in the United States of America are named after it:
- It is also the name of a small village in north western New South Wales, Australia that makes up part of the Golden Triangle.
- It is also the name of a now-defunct California microchip manufacturing company.
- The North Star was an antislavery newspaper published from 1847-1851 by the escaped slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. Douglass named the paper after the North Star to evoke the symbolism of a guide from slavery in the Southern United States to freedom in the North.
- A name for the Underground Railroad used by Martin Luther King Jr.
- It is also the name of the largest nightclub in Shetland.
- North Star was the name of a passenger aircraft manufactured by Canadair for Trans Canada Airlines (now Air Canada).
- The North Star was a named passenger train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad between Chicago and Mackinaw City, MI.
- The Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League, were originally based in Bloomington, Minnesota, and were known as the Minnesota North Stars from 1967-1993.
- North Star (shoes) was the name of an athletics shoe company.
- Fist of the North Star is a manga, anime, and movie.
- "North Star (Enterprise episode)", a third season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
- North Star Mall is a shopping center located in San Antonio, Texas.
- Former name of MS Endeavour, an expedition ship.
- North Star, a song by Magnolia Electric Co. from their album Trials & Errors
- North Star is an artifact card from the game Magic: The Gathering from the Legends expansion.
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