Definition of north east:
(n) :
(UK) One of nine official administrative regions of England, comprising Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham as well as a small part of North Yorkshire.
(n) :
A geopolitical zone of Nigeria, consisting of the states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe.
(n) :
(US) Alternative form of Northeast (“a region of the contiguous United States”). [(US) The northeastern region of the contiguous United States including New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, sometimes inclusive of Maryland, Delaware, Washington, DC, Virginia and West Virginia.]