NW

NW may stand for:

• Northwest, an ordinal direction
• Nat Wolff, a singer and actor
• New Weekly, an Australian celebrity magazine
• nanowire
• New Wave music
• Nidwalden
• Norfolk and Western Railroad
• North Rhine-Westphalia
• North Western Reporter
• NW postcode area
• Northwest Airlines
• Nuclear warfare
• the code for the ISO specified Vacuum flange fitting