NORTHWEST

'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:

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Northwest

North west and north-west

Norwest, nor'west

Nord-ouest

See also

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

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

Norwest, nor'west

★ Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo)

★ The Nor'wester wind and associated Nor'west arch, a weather pattern in southern New Zealand

Nord-ouest

★ Nord-Ouest Department, Haiti

See also

★ Northwestern

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