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The Pacific Northwest is a diverse geographic region, dominated by several mountain ranges, including the Coast Mountains, the Cascade Range, the Olympic Mountains, the Columbia Mountains, and the Rocky Mountains. The highest peak in the Pacific Northwest is Mount Rainier, in the Washington Cascades, at 14,410 feet (4,392 m).
A man in Portland, Oregon with Cascadian flag on International Workers' Day, 2012 (from Pacific Northwest) Image 12 The Coquihalla River in the Canadian Cascades (from Cascade Range ) Image 13 Mount Hood is the tallest point in the U.S. state of Oregon .
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.
The Pacific Northwest set a modern record for most acres burned in a season at 2.1 million as of Thursday, which beat out the historic 2020 wildfire season’s 1.98 million acres in Oregon and ...
Northwest Oregon is a geographic and cultural region of the U.S. state of Oregon, ... sighted the Pacific Ocean for the first time on November 7, 1805, ...
At least two people have died and hundreds of thousands are without power as a second powerful bomb cyclone approaches the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, causing high winds, heavy rain ...
The Pacific Northwest stretches across Oregon, Washington, the Canadian province of British Columbia and -- perhaps -- areas like Idaho and northern California, depending on who you ask.
Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county.