NG

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NG may be a name:

• Ng, a Chinese surname
• Ng Tung River in Hong Kong

It may be an acronym:

• Nanogram (ng)
• National Geographic Society
• National Guard
• Natural gas
• Newgrounds, a web site exhibiting user-made animation and games
• Newsgroup
• An outtake (a no-good cut) in Konglish and Wasei-eigo
• No Good, an antonym for OK in Japanese English
• Noble Gas, used in chemical structures where multiple elements could be used.
• Neutral Good, an Alignment in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
• Next/New Generation, especially in software development:
  • FireWall-1 Next Generation, a major version of products of Check Point company introduced in 2001
  • NG La Banda, a Cuban musical group (NG stands for "nueva generación")
  • RELAX NG (REgular LAnguage for XML Next Generation), a schema language for XML
  • Saab 900 (NG), a Saab car introduced in 1994
  • LinCity-NG, an open source city-building game
• N-Gage, a handheld gaming system
• The Nederlandse Gidsen (Dutch Guides), one of the Scouting organisiations that evolved into the national Scouting organisation of the Netherlands.
• The Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (Low-German Reformed Church), a major church in South Africa.
• Nitroglycerin
• The Northrop Grumman Corporation, a major United States defense contractor
• Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft
• National Grid plc

It may be a code:

• .ng the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Nigeria
• Niger (FIPS country code NG)
• Nottingham (British post code NG)
• Lauda Air (airline code NG)
• Nigeria (ISO country code NG)
• NG 6, the fossilized upper cranium of Homo erectus found in Ngandong, Indonesia

It may be a linguistic entity:

• Ng (digraph)
• Eng (Ŋ ŋ)
• Ng (Ң, ң), a letter in the Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Kalmyk alphabets