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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Companies
- Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines, Inc. , was a major United States airline headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, near Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Northwest had three major hubs in the United States: Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, and Memphis International Airport. Northwest also operated, a former major airline purchased by Delta Air Lines that ceased operating in 2009
- Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo Wells Fargo & Co. is a diversified financial services company with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the US by assets and the third largest bank by market cap. Wells Fargo is the second largest bank in deposits, home mortgage servicing, and debit card. In 2007 it was the only bank in the United States to be)
Geography
Africa
- North-West District, Botswana
- Northwest Region (Cameroon), Cameroon
- North West Province, South Africa, a province of South Africa
- Northwestern Province, Zambia
Asia and Oceania
- North West Australia, an unofficial geographical region
- North Western Province (Victoria), an electorate in the Victorian Legislative Council of Australia until 2006
- Northwest Province (IMCRA region), an Australian marine biogeographic province
- Northwest China Northwestern China includes the autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Ningxia and the provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai
- North West Delhi, a district of Delhi
- North West District, Singapore
- North-West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (Urdu: śhumāl maġribī sarhadī sūbha شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ) (other informal names include Sarhad, Frontier Afghania, Pakhtunkhwa, Pashtunistan and Pakhtunistan) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. The majority of the population of the NWFP are Pashtuns, locally referred to as Pakhtuns,, Pakistani province
- North Western Province, Sri Lanka, also known as Wayamba
- North-Western Provinces, an administrative region in British India
- Tay Bac, literally Northwest Vietnam
Europe
- North West England North West England is one of the nine official regions of England. It has a population of 6,853,200 and comprises five ceremonial counties of England – Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, and Cheshire, region
- Northwest Highlands The Northwest Highlands are the northern third of Scotland that is separated from the Grampian Mountains by the Great Glen . The Caledonian Canal, which extends from Loch Linnhe in the west, to the Moray Firth in the north splits this area from the rest of the country, an area of Scotland
- North–West (European Parliament constituency), in the Republic of Ireland
- Northwestern Federal District Northwestern Federal District is one of the seven federal districts of Russia. It consists of the northern part of European Russia. Its population was 13,974,466 in the 2002 Census, living on an area of 1,677,900 km² (647,840.8 mi²). The current Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District is Ilya Klebanov, Russia
- Northwestern Krai, a subdivision of Imperial Russia
North America
- Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest is a region in western North America, bound by the Pacific Ocean to the west. Always included are the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon, and the Canadian province of British Columbia. Southeast Alaska, Idaho, western Montana and northern California are often included, unofficial region in the United States and Canada
- Northwestern United States The Northwestern United States comprise the northwestern states up to the western Great Plains regions of the United States, and consistently include the states of Oregon and Washington, to which Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Southeast Alaska, and parts of Northern California are sometimes added. Occasionally Northern Nevada, Northern Utah, Northern, a region of the United States of America
- Northwest Territories Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south. It has a land area of 1,140,835 square kilometres and a population of 41,464 as of the 2006 census, an increase of 11.0% from 2001, Canadian territory
- North-Western Territory The North-Western Territory was a region of British North America until 1870. Named for where it lay in relation to Rupert's Land, the territory at its greatest extent covered what is now Yukon, mainland Northwest Territories, northwestern mainland Nunavut, northwestern Saskatchewan, northern Alberta and northern British Columbia, a Hudson's Bay Company region, precursor to today's Northwest Territories though including what is now Yukon Territory
- Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The various islands of the archipelago are separated from one another and the Canadian mainland by a series of Arctic waterways collectively known, a sea route traversing Canada's Arctic archipelago.
- The Northwest Territory The Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, more commonly known as the Northwest Territory, was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 13, 1787, until March 1, 1803, when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Ohio, historical region roughly overlapping today's Midwestern United States
- Nord-Ouest Department, Haiti
- Northwest, Washington, D.C. Northwest is the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street. It is the largest of the four quadrants of the city (NW, NE, SW and SE), and it includes the central business district, the Federal Triangle, and the museums along the northern, in the United States
Others
- Argentine Northwest
- Northwest Passage (disambiguation) also points to less common usages of the same term.
Schools
- Northwest High School (disambiguation), several high schools
- Northwest School, arts high school in Seattle
- Northwest University (disambiguation), several schools
Other uses
- Northwest Ordinance The Northwest Ordinance was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. On, U.S. ordinance outlining the provisions of accepting a new state
- Northwest Smith, a character in science fiction stories by C. L. Moore
- Northwest School (art), a 20th century art movement centered in the Pacific Northwest
See also
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Who discovered the Northwest Passage? How was the first person to travel through the Northwest Passage?
Q. I got that the first pesron to travel through the Northwest Passage was Raold Amundsen. I need to know who discovered it. Was it John Rae? I am really confused. Please tell me who discovered it and who went through it first.
Asked by Webbykinz - Tue May 5 18:07:22 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. In fact, the Northwest Passage has come and gone dozens of times. In earlier centuries, it was blocked by ice. Prior to that it was open water. Before that it was frozen, Before that it was open - it's very much influenced by climate changes. It was quite likely used by the Native Americans - the Inuit, Eskimo, Greenland First Nations etc. And it may even have been used by early explorers from China and Japan. There are very, very old maps (about 2500 years old) that show the passage as open, at a time when the 'civilized' world didn't even realize it was there. So it's really hard to say who the honor of 'discovering' and being the first person through, might be.
Answered by old lady - Tue May 5 18:24:13 2009
Q. I got that the first pesron to travel through the Northwest Passage was Raold Amundsen. I need to know who discovered it. Was it John Rae? I am really confused. Please tell me who discovered it and who went through it first.
Asked by Webbykinz - Tue May 5 18:07:22 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. In fact, the Northwest Passage has come and gone dozens of times. In earlier centuries, it was blocked by ice. Prior to that it was open water. Before that it was frozen, Before that it was open - it's very much influenced by climate changes. It was quite likely used by the Native Americans - the Inuit, Eskimo, Greenland First Nations etc. And it may even have been used by early explorers from China and Japan. There are very, very old maps (about 2500 years old) that show the passage as open, at a time when the 'civilized' world didn't even realize it was there. So it's really hard to say who the honor of 'discovering' and being the first person through, might be.
Answered by old lady - Tue May 5 18:24:13 2009
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