Nome
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Nome may refer to:
A country subdivision:
Places:
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A country subdivision:
- Nome (Egypt)Nome (Egypt)A nome was a subnational administrative division of ancient Egypt. Today's use of the Greek nome rather than the Egyptian term sepat came about during the Ptolemaic period. Fascinated with Egypt, Greeks created many historical records about the country...
an administrative division within ancient Egypt. - Nome (Greece), the administrative division immediately below the peripheries of Greece
Places:
- Nome, NorwayNome, NorwayNome is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Midt-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ulefoss....
- Nome, AlaskaNome, AlaskaNome is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. According to the 2010 Census, the city population was 3,598. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the...
, US - Nome, CaliforniaNome, CaliforniaNome is a former settlement in Kern County, California. It was located on the Southern Pacific Railroad northwest of downtown Bakersfield....
, US - Nome, TexasNome, TexasNome is a city in Jefferson County, Texas, United States. It is located 20 miles west of Beaumont at the intersection of U.S. Highway 90, State Highway 326 and Farm to Market Road 365. The population was 588 at the 2010 census...
, US - Nome, North DakotaNome, North DakotaAs of the census of 2000, there were 70 people, 31 households, and 20 families residing in the city. The population density was 168.8 people per square mile . There were 38 housing units at an average density of 91.6 per square mile...
, in Barnes County, North Dakota, US - Nome, Queensland 17km south of Townsville
Other uses:
- Nome (mathematics)
- GnomeGnomeA gnome is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature...
, spelled Nome in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum- Nome KingNome KingThe Nome King is a fictional character in L. Frank Baum's Oz books. Although the Wicked Witch of the West is the most famous of Oz's villains , the Nome King is the closest the book series has to a main antagonist.-In the novels:The character called the Nome King is originally named Roquat the Red...
- Nome King
- Characters in the The Nome Trilogy by Terry Pratchett
- Nome, Spiritual TeacherNome, Spiritual TeacherNome is a spiritual teacher at Society of Abidance in Truth, known by the acronym SAT, which established and maintains a temple for nondual Self-knowledge in California. He expounds the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi and Advaita Vedanta. He, along with Dr. H...