NWA or Nwa most commonly refers to:
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N.W.A
N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes) was an American Hip hop music, hip hop group whose members were among the earliest and most significant popularizers and controversial figures of the gangsta rap subgenre, and the group is wide ...
("Niggaz Wit Attitudes"), a hip hop group from Compton, California, US
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National Wrestling Alliance
The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is an American professional wrestling promotion and former professional wrestling governing body operated by its parent company Lightning One, Inc.
Founded in 1948, the NWA began as a governing body for a ...
, a professional wrestling organization
NWA or Nwa may refer to:
Music
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New Weird America
New Weird America is a 21st century style of music that primarily draws on psychedelic and folk music of the 1960s and 1970s.
Etymology
The term was coined by David Keenan in the issue 234 (August 2003) of ''The Wire'', following the Brattlebo ...
, a subgenre of psychedelic and indie music, popularized in the '60s and '70s
Places
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Nwa, Kale
Nwa is a village in Kale Township, Kale District, in the Sagaing Region of western Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although o ...
, a village in Burma
* Nwa, Cameroon, a commune in
Donga-Mantung, Cameroon
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North Waziristan
North Waziristan District ( ps, شمالي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is the northern part of Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afgha ...
, an administrative region in Pakistan
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Northwest Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas (NWA) is a metropolitan area and region in Arkansas within the Ozark Mountains. It includes four of the ten largest cities in the state: Fayetteville, Arkansas, Fayetteville, Springdale, Arkansas, Springdale, Rogers, Arkansas, ...
, the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers metropolitan region of the U.S. state of Arkansas
Organizations
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Northwest Airlines
Northwest Airlines Corp. (NWA) was a major American airline founded in 1926 and absorbed into Delta Air Lines, Inc. by a merger. The merger, approved on October 29, 2008, made Delta the largest airline in the world until the American Airline ...
(ICAO code), a defunct U.S. airline
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North-Western Area Command (RAAF)
North-Western Area Command was one of several geographically based commands raised by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II. Its wartime sphere of operations included the Northern Territory, adjacent portions of Queensl ...
, a defunct Royal Australian Air Force command
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National Weather Association
The National Weather Association (NWA), founded in 1975, is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities.
Background
The National Weather Association is, ...
, a U.S. meteorological society
* Neighborhood watch association, see
neighborhood watch
A neighborhood watch or neighbourhood watch (see spelling differences), also called a crime watch or neighbourhood crime watch, is an organized group of civilians devoted to crime and vandalism prevention within a neighborhood.
The aim of ne ...
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Nelson Weavers' Association
The Nelson Weavers' Association (NWA) was a trade union representing cotton weavers in the area of Nelson, Lancashire. As the main industry in the town, the union has been influential in its history, and some of its leaders became significant ...
, defunct British trade union
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New Women's Association The New Women's Association (NWA, also known as New Women's Society 新婦人協会, ''Shin-fujin kyokai'') was a Japanese women's rights organization founded in 1919. The organization strove to enhance women's rights in the areas of education, emp ...
, a Japanese women's rights organization (1919-1922)
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Nuer White Army
The Nuer White Army, sometimes decapitalised as the "white army", is a semi-official name for a militant organisation formed by the Nuer people of central and eastern Greater Upper Nile in modern-day South Sudan as early as 1991. According to th ...
, a militant organization active in
South Sudan
South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuëny Thudän), is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the ...
Sports
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National Wrestling Association
The National Wrestling Association (NWA) was an early professional wrestling sanctioning body created in 1930 by the National Boxing Association (NBA; now the World Boxing Association, WBA) as an attempt to create a governing body for professional ...
, a former offshoot of the U.S. National Boxing Association
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The NWA (wrestling stable)
The National Wrestling Alliance was a professional wrestling stable who competed in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1998 and was led by Jim Cornette. Most members of the stable were alumni of Jim Crockett Promotions, once a prominent ...
, a 1998 U.S. wrestling stable
Other uses
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New Word Alive
Word Alive (previously known as New Word Alive) is an annual evangelical Christian conference which originated through a partnership between the UK Christian organisations UCCF and Keswick Ministries. The conference is focussed on Bible teac ...
, a Christian conference held in Hafan Y Môr, Wales
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Northwest Afternoon
''Northwest Afternoon'' (also known at times as NWA) was a local television talk show in the United States. It aired weekdays at 3PM in the Puget Sound area of Washington. It was produced locally by Seattle TV station KOMO-TV Channel 4, and debute ...
'', a former US television talk show
* Northwest Africa, a general region used in classification of
meteorites
A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon. When the original object e ...
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