NATAL or Natal may refer to:
Places
*
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Natal (), literally ''Christmas'' or ''natal'' ("birth") is the capital and largest city of the States of Brazil, state of Rio Grande do Norte, located in Northeast Region, Brazil, northeastern Brazil. According to Brazilian Institute of Geograp ...
, a city in Brazil
*
Natal, South Africa (disambiguation), a region in South Africa
**
Natalia Republic
The Natalia Republic was a short-lived Boer republic founded in 1839 after a Voortrekker victory against the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River. The area was previously named ''Natália'' by Portuguese sailors, due to its discovery on Christm ...
, a former country (1839–1843)
**
Colony of Natal
The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on 4 May 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia, and on 31 May 1910 combined with three other colonies t ...
, a former British colony (1843–1910)
**
Natal (province), a former province (1910–1994)
**
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN) is a Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu people, Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu language, Zulu) and ...
, a province (since 1994)
*
Mandailing Natal Regency, a regency in Indonesia
**
Natal, North Sumatra, a town in the above regency
*
Natal, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
*
Natal, British Columbia, a coal-mining community in the East Kootenay region of Canada
Biology
* Of or relating to
birth
Birth is the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring, also referred to in technical contexts as parturition. In mammals, the process is initiated by hormones which cause the muscular walls of the uterus to contract, expelling the f ...
**
Childbirth
Childbirth, also known as labour, parturition and delivery, is the completion of pregnancy, where one or more Fetus, fetuses exits the Womb, internal environment of the mother via vaginal delivery or caesarean section and becomes a newborn to ...
*
Natal banana frog, a species of frog (''Afrixalus spinifrons'')
*
Natal dwarf puddle frog, a species of frog (''Phrynobatrachus natalensis'')
*
Natal ghost frog, a species of frog (''Heleophryne natalensis'')
*
Natal sand frog, a species of frog (''Tomopterna natalensis'')
Military
*
Ingobamakhosi Carbineers, an infantry regiment of the South African Army, formerly known as the Natal Carbineers
*
King Cetshwayo Artillery Regiment, an artillery regiment of the South African Army,
*
Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles, an armoured regiment of the South African Army, formerly known as the Natal Mounted Rifles
*
Natal Native Contingent, a large force of black auxiliary soldiers in British South Africa during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War
*
''Natal'' (ship), two warships
Sports
*
KwaZulu-Natal cricket team, South African cricket team
Other
*
"Natal" (song), a 1991 single by Chico & Roberta
*
Natal de Carvalho Baroni (born 1945), Brazilian football player
*
Natal Day, a civic holiday in Canada
*
NATAL Israel, Israel's Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War
*
Natal Observatory, an astronomical observatory in the Colony of Natal from 1882 to 1911
*
Apostolic Vicariate of Natal, a former Catholic missionary jurisdiction, South Africa
*
Kinect
Kinect is a discontinued line of motion sensing input devices produced by Microsoft and first released in 2010. The devices generally contain RGB color model, RGB cameras, and Thermographic camera, infrared projectors and detectors that map dep ...
(code name Project Natal), a motion-based control system for the Xbox 360 video game console
*
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Natal, archdiocese in Brazil
*
University of Natal
The University of Natal was a university in the former South African province Natal which later became KwaZulu-Natal. The University of Natal no longer exists as a distinct legal entity, as it was incorporated into the University of KwaZulu- ...
, South Africa
{{Disambiguation, geo