the direction towards the point of the horizon midway between north and west
a province of northern South Africa, formed in 1994 from the NE part of Cape Province and SW Transvaal; capital, Mafikeng
the compass point or direction midway between north and north-west
a sea passage along the northern coast of the American continent, through the Canadian Arctic from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It was sought for many years as a possible trade route by explorers including Sebastian Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Martin Frobisher; it was first navigated in 1903-6 by Roald Amundsen
the direction or compass point midway between west and north-west
a province of NW Pakistan, on the border with Afghanistan; capital, Peshawar