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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:
[edit] Northwest
- Northwest Airlines, a large airline headquartered in the United States
- Northwest High School, a name for several high schools
- 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
- Pacific Northwest, unofficial region in the United States and Canada
[edit] North West and North-West
[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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