Northland

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Northland is the official or unofficial name of several places and things:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 Australia 1.2 Canada 1.3 New Zealand 1.4 United States 1.4.1 Schools 1.5 Europe 1.6 Fictional places 2 Non-geographic meanings 3 See also

[edit] Places

[edit] Australia

• Northland Shopping Centre, a shopping centre in Melbourne, Australia

[edit] Canada

• Ontario Northland Railway, a transportation company in Canada

[edit] New Zealand

• Northland Region, the northernmost region of New Zealand, located on the North Auckland (or Northland) Peninsula
• Northland, Wellington, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand
• Northland College, Okaihau, a high school at Okaihau in the Far North District of New Zealand

[edit] United States

• The Northland, an area in the Upper Midwest, Consisting of the westernmost portion of Michigan's Upper Penninsula, Northern Wisconsin, and Northeastern Minnesota.
• Northland, Michigan, a town
• Northland, Minnesota, a town
• "The Northland", a nickname for the area of Kansas City, Missouri north of the Missouri River
• "Northland," the name of a suburb and planning area (and a former suburban mall which served as its center) in the northeast area of Columbus, Ohio
• Northland Center (Michigan), the first suburban shopping mall in the United States

[edit] Schools

• Northland College (Wisconsin), a college in Ashland, Wisconsin
• Northland High School (Columbus, Ohio)
• Northland Pioneer College, a college in Holbrook, Arizona
• Northland Community and Technical College, a college in East Grand Forks, Minnesota
• Northland Baptist Bible College, a ministerial college in Dunbar, Wisconsin.

[edit] Europe

• Northland (Thule), a classic geographic location variously identified as northern Britain, Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, and Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea

[edit] Fictional places

• Northland (Shannara), a region in the Four Lands, the fictional world where Terry Brooks's Shannara series is set

[edit] Non-geographic meanings

• Northland Rugby Union, the governing body for rugby union in the Northland region of New Zealand, whose representative team, the Northland Taniwha, play in the Air New Zealand Cup
• Northland (film), a 20 minute Canadian documentary film directed by Ernest Borneman
• Northland (computer game), a computer game published by Freeverse Software

[edit] See also

• Norrland