Pacific Northwest

[ puh-sif-ik nawrth-west ]

noun
  1. an imprecisely defined region of North America that is commonly held to include the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and the Canadian province of British Columbia, with some designations extending the region south into northern California and/or north into Alaska and Yukon: often considered as much a historical, sociocultural region as a geographical one. Abbreviation: PNW

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Pacific Northwest

noun
  1. the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies

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