NC

NC is an abbreviation that can refer to several distinct places, organizations, and technical terms. In geography, it most commonly denotes two separate entities: North Carolina, a state in the southeastern United States, with Raleigh as its capital and Charlotte as its largest city; and New Caledonia, a French overseas collectivity in the southwest Pacific, with Nouméa as capital. The two are unrelated and located on different continents.

In codes and domains, NC is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for New Caledonia, and the Internet top-level domain for the territory is .nc.

In technology and manufacturing, NC stands for Numerical Control, the historic term for machine tools operated by coded instructions. Modern equipment typically uses CNC (computer numerical control), but NC is still used in some contexts to refer to older or simpler control systems.

In other contexts, NC may appear as an acronym within various organization names or competition titles, depending on the subject area. Because it is an acronym with multiple uses, its meaning is usually determined by surrounding context.