NPR (disambiguation)

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NPR (formerly National Public Radio) is a media organization that serves as a national syndicator to most public radio stations in the United States.

NPR may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• National Philharmonic of Russia, a Russian orchestra
• Natural Product Reports, a British peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Nevada Public Radio, a public corporation operating several radio stations in Nevada

Government

• National Partnership for Reinventing Government (originally the National Performance Review), an interagency task force, one of the efforts to reform the way the US federal government works
• Nuclear Posture Review, the periodic assessment carried out by the US Department of Defense
• National Population Register, a database of residents in India with Unique Identification Authority of India numbers
• National Police Reserve, a lightly armed national police force during the Allied occupation of Japan, and an immediate predecessor to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF)

Rail transportation

• North Pennsylvania Railroad, a former railroad company that served areas around Philadelphia
• Northern Plains Railroad, a short-line railroad that operates in Minnesota and North Dakota
• Northern Powerhouse Rail, a proposed railway in northern England

Technology

• Non-photorealistic rendering, a computer-graphics-rendering technique that does not aim toward photorealism
• _nP_r, a function for computing permutations in some calculators

Other uses

• Nepalese rupee (ISO 4217 code: NPR)

See also

• National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPRA), an area of land on the Alaska North Slope owned by the U.S. federal government
• Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), a public notice issued by a federal agency when it wishes to add, remove, or modify a regulation