Places
- The Germanic word for promontory, found in Northern European placenames
- Loch Ness, a large, deep, freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands
- Loch Ness Monster, a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness
- River Ness, links the Loch to the North Sea at Inverness, Scotland, UK
- Ness: East Ness & West Ness, Ryedale, North Yorkshire
- Ness, Lewis, the most northerly area on Lewis, Scotland, UK
- Ness Football Club, Football club based in the Western Isles
- Bo'ness, a town in Scotland, UK
- Lowestoft Ness, most easterly point of the UK
- Orford Ness, shingle spit and bird sanctuary in Suffolk, England, UK
- Ness, Cheshire, a village in Cheshire on the Wirral Peninsula, England, UK
- Ness Botanic Gardens, owned by the University of Liverpool and located on the Wirral Peninsula, England
- Ness City, Kansas
- Ness Township, Minnesota
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