NPR, officially National Public Radio, is a media organization that serves as a national syndicator to most public radio stations in the US.

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
  • Natural Product Radiance, an Indian scientific journal
  • 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, an effort 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 a predecessor to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF)

Rail transportation

  • Nippori Station, JR East station code
  • North Pennsylvania Railroad, a former railroad company that served areas around Philadelphia
  • Northern Pacific Railway, former railroad from Wisconsin to Washington State
  • 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
  • <sub>n</sub>P<sub>r</sub>, a function for computing permutations in some calculators

Other uses

  • Nepalese rupee, by ISO 4217 currency code
  • Isuzu Elf, known as the Isuzu NPR in North America

See also

  • National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPRA), an area of land on the Alaska North Slope owned by the US 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