Pacific Northwest

American  

[puh-sif-ik nawrth-west] / pəˈsɪf ɪk ˌnɔrθˈwɛst /

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. PNW

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Pacific Northwest British  

noun

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

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Pacific Northwest

Before I relocated to the Pacific Northwest, I had only seen whales and other wildlife common to this region on TV.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

That also typically brings drier-than-normal conditions farther to the north, like the Pacific Northwest, according to Cohen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Fervo early Monday announced an agreement with Nvidia and Pacific Northwest Laboratory to develop a next-generation digital platform for geothermal drilling operations, according to a media release.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

"The fact that we found it here in one-third of our coyotes was surprising, because it wasn't found anywhere in the Pacific Northwest until earlier this year."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

Pacific Northwest Indian artists carved beautiful masks, boxes, bas-reliefs, and totem poles within the dictates of an elaborate aesthetic system based on an ovoid shape that has no name in European languages.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann