Northern Frontier

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
NF
Pronunciation
/ˈnɔrðərn frənˈtɪr/
Category
Regional
Related Field
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Examples in Context

  1. It's no secret that Japan's northern frontier is a snow-sports paradise.
  2. The journey about where I came from ran through dozens of common towns and villages on the northern frontier from east to west.
  3. Meanwhile, at the northern frontier with China, trade is thriving, and bribes can often buy passage across the border for North Koreans wishing to buy goods, visit family or flee the country.
  4. The strength and riches of the civilized world became inadequate to make head against the nomad population which skirted its northern frontier;
  5. In936, the Later Jin Dynasty of northern China ceded a large part of its northern frontier, including modern Beijing, to the Khitan Liao Dynasty.

Other meanings of NF