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 1.5 Corporations 1.6 Shopping centers 1.7 Schools 1.8 Europe 1.9 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, located between Kelburn, Karori and Wilton
• Northland College, Okaihau, a high school at Okaihau in the Far North District of New Zealand
• Northland, an electoral district in New Zealand.

[edit] United States

• The Northland, an area in the Upper Midwest, consisting of the westernmost portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Northern Wisconsin, and Northeastern Minnesota.
• Northland, Michigan, a town
• Northland, Minnesota, a town
• "The Northland", a nickname for the area of Kansas City, Missouri lying north of the Missouri River
• "Northland," the name of a neighborhood and planning area in the northeast area of Columbus, Ohio

[edit] Corporations

• Northland Corporation, a kitchen appliance manufacturer in Greenville, Michigan
• Northland Forest Products, a wholesale and retail supplier of hardwood in Kingston, New Hampshire
• Northland Investment Corporation, a real estate company in Newton, Massachusetts
• Northland Organic Foods Corporation, an organic foods brokerage company in St. Paul, Minnesota
• Northland Seed & Grain Corporation, a producer and supplier of non-GMO seed and grain in St. Paul, Minnesota

[edit] Shopping centers

• Northland Center, the first suburban shopping mall in the United States, located in Southfield, Michigan
• Northland Mall (Columbus, Ohio), a demonlished mall in the region of Columbus, Ohio mentioned above
• Northland Center (Sterling, Illinois), a shopping mall in Sterling, Illinois
• Northland Mall (Worthington, Minnesota), a shopping mall in Worthington, Minnesota
• Northland Center (Jennings, Missouri), a dead mall in Jennings, Missouri

[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
• Northland Christian School, a private, parochial highschool in Houston, Texas.

[edit] Europe

• Northland (Thule), a classical geographic location variously identified as northern Britain, Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, and Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea
• Northland, a folk metal band based near Barcelona, Spain.

[edit] Fictional places

• Northland (Shannara), a region in the Four Lands, the fictional setting of Terry Brooks's Shannara series

[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
• USCGC Northland (WPG-49), a Coast Guard cutter from 1927 to 1946.
• USCGC Northland (WMEC-904), a Medium Endurance Cutter based out of Portsmouth, VA.

[edit] See also

• Norrland