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Nafta
(North American Free Trade Agreement). An important trade agreement creating a huge zone of cooperation on trade and economic issues in North America.
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Nagorno-Karabakh
The mountainous area of Azerbaijan, fought over by Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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Nation
A group of people with a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sense of unity.
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Nation-State
The name of the territory when a nation and a state occupy the same territory.
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Nationalism
The belief that people should be loyal to their nation, the people with whom they share land, culture, and history.
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Nationality
Nationality provides the identifying terms for citizens in the countries – noun and adjectives.
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Native peoples
Native peoples: the people who belong by birth or origin to a place.
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NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – A military alliance formed in 1949 included the United States, Canada, many European nations, and Turkey.
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Natural hazards
Natural hazards list possible natural disasters. For countries where volcanic activity is normal, a volcanism subfield highlights historically productive volcanoes.
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Natural levee
A strip of land immediately alongside a stream that has been built up by deposition of sediments during flooding.
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Natural replacement rate
The highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used without decreasing its potential for renewal.
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Natural resources
Materials that occur naturally in an area, such as wood, coal, oil, or gas, can benefit people. Resources are human appraisals.
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Near Abroad
Russia’s name for the now-independent former republics, other than Russia, of the USSR.
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Needleleaf
Characteristic of trees like pine, fir, and cedar, found in northern regions of North America.
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Nelson Mandela
One of the African national congress leaders who led a struggle to end apartheid and was elected president in 1994 in the first all-race election in South Africa.
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Neo-Malthusians
Supporters of forecasts that resources will not keep pace with the needs of growing human populations.
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Neocolonialism
The perpetuation of a colonial economic pattern in which developing countries export raw materials to, and buy finished goods from, developed countries.
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New England
The six northern states in the northeast United States-Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
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Newly industrializing countries
NICs – The more prosperous of the world’s less developed countries.
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Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is one of the most viewable and well-visited sights in existence. They stretch across the Niagara River between the US and Canada, interrupted by Goat Island.