Nord

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Nord is Danish, Norwegian, French, German, Italian, and Catalan for north. The term may refer to:

People

• Christiane Nord (* 1943), German translation scholar
• Friedrich Nord (1889–1973), German chemist
• Haavard Nord, Norwegian software expert
• Karl Nord (1912–2003), German anti-Nazi activist
• Kathleen Nord (* 1965), German swimmer
• Keith Nord, American football player
• Ole Tom Nord (* 1940), Norwegian skier
• Orla Nord (* 1875), Danish cyclist
• Pierre Nord (1900-1985), French writer and spy
• Richard Nord, film editor
• Thomas Nord (* 1957), German politician (Die Linke)
• Walter R. Nord, American academic
• Nordic peoples

Places

• Nord, California, an unincorporated community in Butte County, California
• Nord (French department), a department in northern France
• Nord Department (Haiti), a department in northern Haiti
• Nord, Greenland, a military and scientific base
• Nord Region, Burkina Faso
• Nord Region, Cameroon
• Nordic countries
• Nord (Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg constituency), an electoral constituency for Luxembourg's national legislature, the Chamber of Deputies

Film and television

• Nord (1991 film), a film directed by Xavier Beauvois with Bulle Ogier
• Nord (2009 film), a Norwegian film directed by Rune Denstad Langlo

Music

• Nord (Siddharta album), 2001
• Nord (Year of No Light album), 2006
• One of several keyboards produced by Clavia
• C. Erik "Nord" Nordgren, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club

Other uses

• Nord Aviation, a former state-owned French aircraft manufacturer
• North (novel), a 1960 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, with the original title Nord
• Nord, a 2009 3D MMORPG video game for Facebook by Skygoblin
• 12501 Nord, an asteroid
• 6th SS Mountain Division Nord, a WaffenSS division in WW2
• Chemin de Fer du Nord, a French railway company nationalised in 1938
• Gare du Nord, Paris railway station
• Nord (Elder Scrolls), one of the races in the Elder Scrolls fantasy setting

As an acronym

NORD may stand for:

• National Organization for Rare Disorders
• New Orleans Recreation Department
• Regional District of North Okanagan (North Okanagan Regional District or NORD), south-central British Columbia, Canada

See also

• North (disambiguation)
• Norte (disambiguation), Spanish, Portuguese and Galician for north
• All pages beginning with "Nord"
• All pages with titles containing "Nord"