Northern State may refer to: Northern State (band), a female rap group from New York City The Northern State Parkway, a limited-access parkway located on Long Island Northern, Sudan, one of 18 states in Sudan Northern State University, a four-year public institution in Aberdeen, South Dakota The plural Northern States may refer to: Northern United States, states typically as specified by the United States Census Bureau In a historic context, the Union states that did not secede during the American Civil War