Northwest

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Northwest or north west is the ordinal direction halfway between north and west on a compass. It is the opposite of southeast. Some terms use the word northwest or a variation of it:

[edit] Northwest

• Northwest Airlines, a large airline headquartered in the United States
• Northwest High School, a name for several high schools
• Northwest Highlands, an area of Scotland
• Northwest School, arts high school in Seattle
• Northwest Passage, a sea route traversing Canada's Arctic archipelago.
• Northwest Passage (disambiguation) also points to less common usages of the same term.
• Northwest Province, Cameroon
• Northwest Ordinance, U.S. ordinance outlining the provisions of accepting a new state
• Northwest Smith, a character in science fiction stories by C. L. Moore
• Northwest Photonics Association, a collaboration of photonics companies in the Northwest of England
• The Northwest Territory, historical region roughly overlapping today's Midwestern United States
• Northwest Territories, Canadian territory
• Pacific Northwest, unofficial region in the United States and Canada
• Northwest University A small Christian university in Kirkland, Washington

[edit] North west and north-west

• North West Australia, an unofficial geographical region
• North-West District, Botswana
• North West England, region
• North-West Frontier Province, Pakistani province
• North West Province, a province of South Africa
• North-West University, a university in South Africa

[edit] Norwest, nor'west

• Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo)
• The Nor'wester wind and associated Nor'west arch, a weather pattern in southern New Zealand

[edit] Nord-ouest

• Nord-Ouest Department, Haiti

[edit] See also

• Tay Bac, literally Northwest Vietnam
• Northwestern
• Portal:North West England

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