NW

NW may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * NW (novel), by Zadie Smith
 * Nat Wolff, a singer and actor
 * New wave music, a genre
 * New Weekly, an Australian celebrity magazine
 * Nintendo Wii, a video game console

Geography

 * Northwest (disambiguation), multiple articles
 * NW postcode area, northwest London, UK
 * Nidwalden, a canton of Switzerland
 * North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany
 * North West (South African province)

Technology

 * Nanowire, a nanostructure with a diameter on the order of a nanometer
 * NetWare, in file and protocol names of the Novell NetWare family
 * Nuclear warfare, the use of nuclear weapons in war
 * An ISO-specified vacuum flange fitting (code NW)

Other uses

 * No worries, an expression
 * Norfolk and Western Railroad, a U.S. class I railroad
 * North Western Reporter, a US case law report series
 * Northwest Airlines (former IATA airline code NW)