Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest of the United States is best known for its beautiful coastline, green interior, rainy weather, and spectacular mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Seattle and Washington.
Seattle
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Seattle, Washington sits at one of the most beautiful spots in the United States. Occupying a narrow isthmus between the Puget Sound and Lake Washington, it is the biggest city in the Pacific Northwest, with 780,000 people in Seattle and over four million people in the metro area.
Washington
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Washington offers rugged coastline, deserts, forests, mountains, volcanoes, and hundreds of coastal islands to explore. The Cascade Mountains bisect the state, with the damp forested coastal areas to the west, and pine forests, deserts and irrigated farmland of the Columbia River Plateau to the east.
Portland
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Few American cities can match the youthful spirit of Portland, "The City of Roses". The largest city in the state of Oregon, Portland's residents are proud of their city, which draws people for its scenic beauty, great outdoors environment, excellent…
Destinations to Discover
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Oregon
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Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It features rugged coastlines, dense forests, fun cities, mountains, canyons, steppes, and desert in the southeastern part of the state.
Pacific Northwest
- Type: Region with 15,800,000 residents
- Description: region of western North America
- Also known as: “Cascadia”, “Northwest”, “PacNW”, “PNW”, and “The Northwest”
- Category: U.S. region
- Location: United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Pacific Northwest” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إقليم الشمال الغربي الهادئ”
- Azerbaijani: “Sakit okeanın Şimal-Qərbi”
- Basque: “Pazifikoko ipar-mendebaldea”
- Belarusian: “Ціхаакіянскі Паўночны Захад”
- Bosnian: “Pacifički sjeverozapad”
- Catalan: “nord-oest del Pacífic”
- Catalan: “Pacífic Nordoccidental”
- Central Kurdish: “باکووری ڕۆژاوای پاسیفیک”
- Chinese: “太平洋西北區”
- Chinese: “太平洋西北地区”
- Chinese: “太平洋西北地區”
- Chinese: “西北太平洋”
- Croatian: “Pacifički sjeverozapad”
- Czech: “Pacific Northwest”
- Danish: “Pacific Northwest”
- Dutch: “Pacific Northwest”
- Esperanto: “Pacifika nordokcidento”
- Estonian: “Pacific Northwest”
- Estonian: “Vaikne loe”
- Finnish: “Luoteis-Yhdysvallat”
- Finnish: “Pacific Northwest”
- French: “Nord-Ouest Pacifique”
- German: “Pacific Northwest”
- German: “PacNW”
- German: “Pazifischer Nordwesten”
- German: “PNW”
- Hebrew: “אזור הפסיפיק נורת‘ ווסט”
- Hebrew: “אזור הפסיפיק נורת‘ וסט”
- Hebrew: “אזור הפסיפיק נורת’ וסט”
- Hebrew: “מדינות אזור הפסיפיק נורת’ וסט”
- Indonesian: “Pasifik Barat Laut”
- Italian: “Nord-ovest Pacifico”
- Italian: “Pacifico nordoccidentale”
- Japanese: “北西太平洋”
- Japanese: “太平洋岸北西部”
- Kirghiz: “Каскадия”
- Korean: “태평양 북서부”
- Macedonian: “Пацифички Северозапад”
- Macedonian: “Тихоокеански Северозапад”
- Malay: “Barat Laut Pasifik”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pacific Northwest”
- Norwegian: “Pacific Northwest”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nòrd-oèst Pacific”
- Persian: “شمال غربی آرام”
- Persian: “شمال غربی اقیانوس آرام”
- Polish: “Wybrzeże Północno-Zachodnie”
- Portuguese: “Noroeste Pacífico”
- Russian: “Северо-запад”
- Russian: “Тихоокеанский Северо-Запад”
- Serbian: “Пацифички северозапад”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pacifički sjeverozapad”
- Slovak: “Pacific Northwest”
- Slovenian: “Pacifiški severozahod”
- Spanish: “Noroeste del Pacífico”
- Spanish: “Noroeste Pacifico”
- Swedish: “Pacific Northwest”
- Thai: “แปซิฟิกตะวันตกเฉียงเหนือ”
- Turkish: “Pasifik Kuzeybatısı”
- Ukrainian: “Тихоокеанський північний захід”
- Ukrainian: “Тихоокеанський Північний Захід”
- Urdu: “شمال مغربی بحرالکاہل”
- Venetian: “Nordest Pasìfego”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Bắc Hoa Kỳ ven biển Thái Bình Dương”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Bắc Thái Bình Dương”
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