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Oregon Coast: Areas bordering the Pacific Ocean Astoria, Tillamook, Lincoln City, Newport, Florence, Coos Bay, Brookings: Not available Itself divided into three sub-regions, highlighted on map. Portland metropolitan area: Area around Portland: Portland, Gresham, Hillsboro, Beaverton: 1,918,394 (2015 est.) [1] [2] Also includes parts of ...
Pages in category "Regions of Oregon" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. ... Western Oregon; Willamette Floodplain; Willamette Valley
Mount Hood is the highest peak in Oregon.. Western Oregon's mountainous regions, home to three of the most prominent mountain peaks of the United States including Mount Hood, were formed by the volcanic activity of the Juan de Fuca Plate, a tectonic plate that poses a continued threat of volcanic activity and earthquakes in the region.
Oregon (/ ˈ ɒr ɪ ɡ ən,-ɡ ɒ n / ⓘ ORR-ih-ghən, -gon) [7] [8] is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho.
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used ... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.
Level III subdivides the continent into 182 ecoregions; of these, 9 lay partly within Oregon's borders. Level IV is a further subdivision of Level III ecoregions. There are 65 Level IV ecoregions in Oregon, [3] many of which continue into adjacent areas in the neighboring states of Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and California.
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The Oregon High Desert is a region of the U.S. state of Oregon located east of the Cascade Range and south of the Blue Mountains, in the central and eastern parts of the state. Divided into a southern region and a northern region, the desert covers most of five Oregon counties and averages 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above sea level.