Some trivia: the North Pole is actually the magnetic south pole.

Out of convention we call it the “North Pole” because on a compass the north magnet is point toward its attract magnetic south.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_magnetic_pole

I think in this case the concept of North came first and which end of a magnet points that way came second. Compasses are old, but not as old as the sunrise/set, which are (presumably) the original vaguely universal directions and define all four cardinal directions.