Nes Explained

NES commonly refers to the Nintendo Entertainment System, a video game console.

Nes or NES may also refer to:

Education

• National Education Service, a proposal for the United Kingdom
• New Economic School, in Russia
• New English School (Jordan)
• New English School (Kuwait)
• NHS Education for Scotland, the educational wing of NHS Scotland

Places

Faroe Islands

• Nes, Eysturoy, a village in Nes Municipality on the island of Eysturoy
• Nes Municipality, a municipality on the island of Eysturoy
• Nes, Vágur, a village in Vágur municipality on the island of Suðuroy

Norway

• Nes, Hole, a village in Hole Municipality in Buskerud county
• Nes, Vestland, a village in Luster Municipality in Vestland county
• Nes, Ådal, a village in Ringerike Municipality in Buskerud county
• Nes, Ørland, a village in Ørland Municipality in Trøndelag county
• Nes, the former name of Nesbyen Municipality, a municipality in Buskerud county
• Nes Municipality (Akershus), a municipality in Akershus county
• Nes Municipality (Hedmark), a former municipality in the old Hedmark county
• Nes Municipality (Sør-Trøndelag), a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county
• Nes Municipality (Vest-Agder), a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county
• Nes Church (disambiguation)

Netherlands

• Nes, Ameland, a village in the municipality of Ameland
• Nes (Amsterdam), an old street in central Amsterdam
• Nes, Heerenveen, a village in the municipality of Heerenveen
• Nes, Dongeradeel, a village in the municipality of Dongeradeel
  • Nes (Schagen), a village in the municipality of Schagen Nes aan de Amstel, a village in the municipality of Amstelveen
• De Nes, a village in the municipality of Texel

Russia

• Nes, Russia, a village in Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Syria

• Rojava, officially the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), a de facto autonomous region

Science and technology

• Nes (fish), a genus of gobies in subfamily Gobiinae
• Natural evolution strategies, a method for numerical optimization
• Natural Earth satellite, a natural satellite of Earth, such as the moon
• Nestin (protein), a human gene and protein
• Nuclear export signal, an amino acid sequence causing a protein to be exported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm
• Night eating syndrome, an eating disorder
• Netscape Enterprise Server, the former name of the Sun Java System Web Server

Organisations

• Nashville Electric Service, power provider for Nashville, Tennessee
• National Energy Systems, a former name of Eco Marine Power
• Neurootological and Equilibriometric Society, a German medical society
• New England Southern Railroad, which formerly used reporting mark NES, now NEGS
• Voter News Service, also known as News Election Service

People

• Aert Jansse van Nes (1626–1693), Dutch naval commander, brother of Jan
• Eeke van Nes (born 1969), Dutch rower
• Hadriaan van Nes (born 1942), Dutch rower
• Jan Jansse van Nes (1631–1680), Dutch admiral, brother of Aert
• Johan van Nes (died 1650), Dutch Golden Age painter
• Nuno Espírito Santo (born 1974), Portuguese footballer and coach

Other uses

• National Election Studies, an academic survey performed after every US election by the University of Michigan
• National Equality Standard, an initiative created by EY
• New Economic System, East German economic policy

See also

• NESOI (Not Elsewhere Specified or Indicated), used in categorizing cargo items
• Ness (disambiguation)