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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: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A common compass rose as is found on a nautical chart showing both true and magnetic north with magnetic declination A compass rose is a figure displaying the orientation of the cardinal directions, north, south, east and west on a map or nautical chart. ... Ordinal directions are the four compass directions: northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest, located halfway between the cardinal directions. ... Compass rose with north highlighted and at top Look up North in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A compass rose with west highlighted This article refers to the cardinal direction; for other uses see West (disambiguation). ... A compass (or mariners compass) is a navigational instrument for finding directions on the Earth. ... Southeast is the ordinal direction halfway between south and east. ...

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
• Northwestern Krai, a subdivision of Imperial Russia
• Pacific Northwest, unofficial region in the United States and Canada

Northwest Airlines (NYSE: NWA), occasionally known as NWA, is an American airline headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota near Minneapolis-St. ... Northwest Guilford High School is a public high school in Guilford County, North Carolina. ... The Northwest Highlands are the northern third of Scotland that is separated from the Grampian Mountains by the Great Glen (Glen More). ... This article is about the country. ... Northwest logo The Northwest School (originally The Northwest School of the Arts, Humanities and Environment) is a private middle and high school located on Seattle, Washingtons First Hill. ... Northwest Passage routes For other uses, see Northwest Passage (disambiguation). ... Northwest Passage may refer to the: Northwest Passage, a route through the Arctic archipelago of Canada 1940 movie Northwest Passage song Northwest Passage on the album of the same name by Canadian folk artist Stan Rogers song A Northwest Passage on the New Morning, Changing Weather album by Swedish punk... The Northwest Province (Nord-Ouest) is the third most populated province in Cameroon. ... The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the Freedom Ordinance) was an act of the Continental Congress of the United States passed on July 13, 1787 under the Articles of Confederation. ... Northwest Smith is a fictional character, and the hero of a series of stories by science fiction writer C. L. Moore. ... Dust jacket illustration for Judgment Night by C. L. Moore, published in 1952 by Gnome Press. ... The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and the Territory North West of the Ohio, was a governmental region within the early United States. ... For other geographical names that include Northwest, see Northwest. ... Northwestern Krai (Северозападный край) was a subdivision (krai) of the late Imperial Russia, a part of the Western Krai. ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start... The Pacific Northwest from space This page is about the region that includes parts of Canada and the United States. ...

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

A map showing the location of the Murchison River. ... North-West is one of the districts of Botswana. ... North West England is one of the nine regions of England. ... The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) (Urdu: شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ) is the smallest in size of the four provinces of Pakistan and is home to the Pashtuns (Pakhtoons). ... Categories: South Africa stubs | North West Province | Provinces of South Africa ... ÁÊã{} This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: theres no such thing: Northwest University is not hyphenated If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. ...

Norwest, Nor'west

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

An older Wells Fargo branch, located in Berkeley, California Wells Fargos corporate headquarters and main branch Wells Fargo & Co. ... The Norwest arch is a weather pattern peculiar to the east coast of New Zealands South Island. ...

Nord-Ouest

• Nord-Ouest Department, Haiti

Nord-Ouest (English: North-West) is one of the nine departments (french: départements) of Haiti. ...

See Also

• Northwestern
• Portal:North West England

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