National
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National may refer to:
  • Nation
    Nation
    A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, and/or history. In this definition, a nation has no physical borders. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government irrespective of their ethnic make-up...

     or country
    Country
    A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

    • Nationality
      Nationality
      Nationality is membership of a nation or sovereign state, usually determined by their citizenship, but sometimes by ethnicity or place of residence, or based on their sense of national identity....

    • A citizen or subject of a country; by inference, frequently a person who owes loyalty to a country but lacks full membership in it, a non-citizen resident
    • National (distribution)
      National (distribution)
      National is an adjective used to describe a product or publication that is distributed throughout an entire nation, e.g., a national magazine. It implies that the item is available for purchase or access anywhere in the country...

      , a type of product or publication this is distributed across an entire nation, e.g., a national magazine
  • Vending machines made by the large manufacturer Crane Co.
    Crane Co.
    The Crane Company is an American industrial products company based in Stamford, Connecticut. Founded by Richard Teller Crane, the company is best known to the consumer public as a large manufacturer of vending machines. Their famous National brand includes glassfront vending machines and cold...

  • National (brand)
    National (brand)
    National was a brand used by Panasonic Corporation to sell home appliances, personal appliances, and industrial appliances and was the first name used by Konosuke Matsushita's electric firm to sell his battery-powered bicycle lamps, hoping that they would be a product used by all of Japan, hence...

    , the Japanese brand under which Matsushita products are sold (elsewhere they are sold under the Panasonic brand)
  • National (Gymanfa Ganu)
    Cymanfa Ganu
    A Cymanfa Ganu , is a Welsh festival of sacred hymns, sung with four part harmony by a congregation, usually under the direction of a choral director....

    , a Welsh festival in Wales, England and North America

Companies and organizations

  • National Airlines
  • National Assembly
    National Assembly
    National Assembly is either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries. The best known National Assembly, and the first legislature to be known by this title, was that established during the French Revolution in 1789, known as the Assemblée nationale...

  • National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering
    National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering
    National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering is an organisation found in Taipei, Taiwan. Since Taiwan is located on the ridge of the Eurasian and Philippine tectonic plates, it is highly seismic...

     (NCREE)
  • National Comics, an early name for the comic book publisher known later as DC Comics
    DC Comics
    DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...

  • National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
    NBC
    The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

    , a television network
  • National Development Front, a Muslim
    Muslim
    A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

     organisation in Kerala, India
  • National Benzole
    National Benzole
    National Benzole was a petroleum brand used in the United Kingdom from 1919 to the 1960s. In 1934 the company acquired Power Petroleum. In the early 1960s it was renamed as simply National.- Foundation :...

    , a British petroleum brand
  • National Bus Company
    National Bus Company
    The National Bus Company, or NBC, was the Australian brand for National Express Group's mass transit bus services in Melbourne and Brisbane. Its sister companies were Westbus, Hillsbus, and Glenorie in Sydney, Southern Coast Transit in Perth.-Routes:...

     in Australia
  • National Car Rental
    National Car Rental
    National Car Rental is a rental car company based in Clayton, Missouri. National was founded by 24 independent rental car agents on August 27, 1947...

  • National (brand)
    National (brand)
    National was a brand used by Panasonic Corporation to sell home appliances, personal appliances, and industrial appliances and was the first name used by Konosuke Matsushita's electric firm to sell his battery-powered bicycle lamps, hoping that they would be a product used by all of Japan, hence...

     a brand name of electronic goods from Panasonic
    Panasonic
    Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd...

  • National College of Natural Medicine
    National College of Natural Medicine
    National College of Natural Medicine is a school of Naturopathic Medicine and Classical Chinese Medicine located in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1956, it is the oldest programmatically of the six accredited naturopathic medical schools in North America. Until July 1, 2006, NCNM was...

    , a medical school in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
  • National High School
    National High School
    National High School is a school in south Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal, India. It is one of the oldest schools in Kolkata. It is affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education....

    , in West Bengal India
  • National Hockey League
    National Hockey League
    The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

    , U.S. ice hockey organization
  • National Motor Vehicle Company, 1900–1924 U.S. automobile company
  • National Party, several unrelated political parties around the world
  • National Radio Company
    National Radio Company
    The National Radio Company, headquartered in Malden, Massachusetts, USA was an American manufacturer of radio equipment from 1914 to 1991.-History:...

  • National Semiconductor
    National Semiconductor
    National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer, that specialized in analog devices and subsystems,formerly headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The products of National Semiconductor included power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers,...

    , an American semiconductor manufacturer
  • National Supermarkets
    National Supermarkets
    National Supermarkets was the second largest grocery chain in both the St. Louis, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana areas of the United States. Both firms were owned by Loblaw Companies of Canada, but in June 1995, they were sold by Loblaw to Schnucks Markets...

  • National String Instrument Corporation
    National String Instrument Corporation
    The National String Instrument Corporation was a guitar company that formed to manufacture the first resonator guitars.-National resonator guitar designs:...

    , a company formed in the 1920s to manufacture the first resonator guitars
  • National Reso-Phonic Guitars
    National Reso-Phonic Guitars
    National Reso-Phonic Guitars is a manufacturer of resonator guitars and other resonator instruments including mandolins, ukuleles and 12 string guitars.The company was formed in 1989 by Don Young and McGregor Gaines, in a Californian garage...

    , a company formed in the 1980s to manufacture resonator guitars and the current owners of the National brand in the U.S.
  • National Records
    National Records
    National Records was a record label that was started in New York by Albert Green in 1945 and lasted till early 1951.Big Joe Turner was signed at the outset and remained until 1947. Billy Eckstine was also a big seller for the label as were The Ravens...

    , a record label
  • Championnat National
    Championnat National
    The Championnat de France National, commonly referred to as simply National or Division 3, serves as the third division of the French football league system behind Ligue 1 and Ligue 2...

     (also known as National), French football league competition
  • Nationals
    Washington Nationals
    The Washington Nationals are a professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C. The Nationals are a member of the Eastern Division of the National League of Major League Baseball . The team moved into the newly built Nationals Park in 2008, after playing their first three seasons in RFK Stadium...

     (Washington Nationals), professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., U.S.

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