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For names and places containing the slightly longer word 'northwestern' (or variants), see
northwestern.
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.com, a travel and tourism site for the Pacific Northwest United States and British Columbia
- 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
- 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 (European Parliament constituency), in Republic of Ireland
- 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
- North-Western Territory, a Hudson's Bay Company region, precursor to today's Northwest Territories though including what is now Yukon Territory
- North-Western Provinces, an administrative region in British India
[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
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