How to characterize generic unorientable manifolds?

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Follow the question, how do we characterize a generic unorientable 2d manifolds (whose the first stiefel whitney class of the tangent bundle is nonzero)?

For example, for a generic orientable 2d manifolds, we can use

  • the genus $g$
  • the Euler character $\chi=2-2g$
  1. How about the full characterization and characters of a generic unorientable 2d manifolds?

  2. If you have comments on higher dimensions (3d, 4d, 5d, etc), this will also be welcome too.