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N nomenclature (from the IAU and from unofficial sources)

Italics indicate farside features.

"N" (the N-shaped part of Rimae Ramsden just north of Ramsden itself)
-Van Langren- Nachara (= Aytona) (IAU: Montes Harbinger Beta)
-Menzel, 1971- Nagaoka
-Wilkins- Najera (-660/ +760)
-NASA- Nameless (Apollo-15 site)
Nansen
-Wilkins- Nansen (+087/ +980)
-NASA- Nansen-Apollo (Apollo-17 site)
Naonobu (of the trio Atwood-Bilharz-Naonobu NW of Langrenus)
-Maedler- Nasireddin
-Gaudibert- Nasmyth
-Menzel, 1971- Nassau
-Van Langren- Nassauii (IAU: Fracastorius)
Natasha (aka Tennis Racquet, in the Euler group)
-Wood- Natasha hills (Euler group)
-Van Langren- Naudei (IAU: Argelander)
-Schmidt- Naumann
-Van Langren- Navei (IAU: Maskelyne)
-Birt?- Navigators' group (location unknown)
-Riccioli- Neander
-Wood?- Neander Fault (see Neander)
Near Cape (Luna 21 / Lunokhod 2 site) (in Le Monnier)
-Maedler- Nearch
-Riccioli- Nebularum, Palus (discontinued name)
Necho (NASA's Roosa) (aka The Bright One)
-Kopal- Nechville (IAU: Coulomb)
-Riccioli- Mare Nectaris (Basin)
-IAU 2009- Nefed'ev (south pole area)
-NASA- Neighbor (Apollo-14 site)
-Lamech- Neison
-NASA- Nemo (Apollo-17 site)
-Schroter- Neper
-Van Langren- Neperi (IAU: Lubbock N)
-Hewelcke- Neptunus, Mons (IAU: Reinhold)
-Menzel, 1971- Nernst (on the floor of Lorentz)
-Caes- Nernst, Rimae (on the floor of Nernst)
-Hewelcke- Nerossus, Mons (IAU: Furnerius, Hase, Petavius)
-Menzel, 1971- Neujmin
-Schmidt- Neumayer
-Krieger- Neutra (see Carpatus, Montes)
-Krieger- Neutra Streifen (see Carpatus, Montes)
-Neison- Newcomb
Newcomb, Rima
-Schroter- Newton
-Menzel, 1971- Nicholson (of the pair Nicholson-Pettit)
Nicol, Dorsum

-Maedler- Nicolai
-Neison- Nicollet
Nielsen
-Caes- Nielsen's ghost (ghost-crater NNE of Nielsen)
-Caes- Nielsen's keyhole, or Nielsen's peanut (doublet crater NW of Nielsen)
-Caes- Nielsen-Rumker, Dorsa (wrinkle ridge between Nielsen and Rumker)
-Menzel, 1971- Niepce
-Caes- Niepce, Vallis (valley, or system of valleys, near Niepce and Niepce F)
-Hewelcke- Niger Major, Lacus (IAU: Plato)
-Hewelcke- Niger Minor, Lacus (dark spot north of Montes Alpes)
Niggli, Dorsum
-Menzel, 1971- Nijland
Nikolaev
Nikolya (Luna-17 site)
-Hewelcke- Nilus, Fluvius (dark streaks at Billy and Mersenius)
-Riccioli- Nimborum, Palus
-Van Langren- Nirenbergeri (IAU: Wurzelbauer D) (Wilkins's Hauet)
-Menzel, 1971- Nishina
-Hewelcke- Nitriae, Mons (dark spots at Lepaute D)
-Gassendi- Nivea, Rupes (location unknown)
-Riccioli- Nivium, Terra
-Menzel, 1971- Nobel
-Van Langren- Nobelarii (IAU: Drebbel E dark spot)
-RP 1097- Nobile
Nobili
-LTO- Noether (Cauchy D)
-Schmidt- Nöggerath
-Riccioli- Nonius
Norman
-NASA- North (Apollo-12 site)
-Caes- North and South America (depressions with IMPs, aka Manilius 1)
-NASA- North Complex (Apollo-15 site)
-Rand McNally- Northern highlands
-NASA- Northern twin (Apollo-15 site)
-NASA- North Massif (Apollo-17 site)
-Elger- North Polar Range (near the north pole)
North Pole
-NASA- North Ray (North Ray Crater) (Apollo-16 site)
-Rand McNally- North Riphaeus range
-North- North Valley (see Auzout)
-Caes- Nose, The (the nose-shaped hillock Lambert Gamma)
-NASA- Notch (Apollo-15 site)
-Menzel, 1971- Nöther (Noether)
-Caes- Nother E, Vallis (the valley at the northern part of Noether E's rim)
-Caes- Nother T, Vallis (the valley at the southern part of Nother T)
-LTO- Novalis (south of Elmer)
-Wilkins- Novellas (Agatharchides P)
-NASA- November (Apollo-15 site)
-Franz- Novum, Mare (discontinued name)
-Van Langren- Noyelles (IAU: Piccolomini)
-Riccioli- Mare Nubium (Basin)
Nubium IMP field (Irregular Mare Patches ENE of Campanus A)
-Menzel, 1971- Numerov
Nunn
-Menzel, 1971- Nusl
-Van Langren- Nuti (IAU: Zach)