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For names and places containing the slightly longer word 'northwestern' (or variants), see .


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:

Northwest

North west and north-west

Norwest, nor'west

  • Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo)
  • The Nor'wester wind and associated Nor'west arch, a weather pattern in southern New Zealand

Nord-ouest

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Cardinal and Ordinal Directions
cardinal directions, they are north, east, south and west. Though the names may seem arbitrary, there are simple specific means to establish each direction, which should work anywhere on Earth where there is a view of the sky.
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North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions; the (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the
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WEST can refer to:
  • Western European Summer Time
  • WEST (AM), an AM radio station located in Easton, Pennsylvania
''This article refers to the cardinal direction; for other uses see West (disambiguation).

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For other uses, see Compass (disambiguation).


COMPASS is an acronym for COMPrehensive ASSembler. COMPASS is a macro assembly language on Control Data Corporation's 3000 series, and on the 60-bit CDC 6000 series, 7600 and
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Southeast or south east is the ordinal direction halfway between south and east. It the opposite of northwest.

Southeast or South East can refer to:

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NW ICAO
NWA Callsign
NORTHWEST
Founded 1926 (as Northwest Airways)
Hubs Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport
Memphis International Airport
Narita International Airport
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Northwest High School or North West High School may refer to several schools of the same name:
  • Northwest High School (Indiana) in Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Northwest High School (Germantown, Maryland) in Germantown, Maryland

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Northwest Highlands are the northern third of Scotland that is separated from the Grampian Mountains by the Great Glen (Glen More). The Caledonian Canal, which extends from Loch Linnhe in the west, to the Moray Firth in the north splits this area from the rest of the country.
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Motto
Nemo me impune lacessit   (Latin)
"No one provokes me with impunity"
"Cha togar m'fhearg gun dioladh"   
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Northwest School (originally The Northwest School of the Arts, Humanities and Environment) is a private middle and high school located on Seattle, Washington's First Hill.
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The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via the waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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Northwest Passage may refer to:
  • The Northwest Passage, a historical sea route between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans through the Arctic waters of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland
  • Northwest Passage (novel), a novel by Kenneth Roberts
  • Northwest Passage

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Capital Bamenda
Divisions Bui
Boyo
Donga-Mantung
Menchum
Mezam
Momo
Ngoketunjia
Area 17,812 km
Inhabitants 1,237,348 (1987)
Pop. density 69 inh.
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Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the Freedom Ordinance) was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States.
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Northwest Smith is a fictional character, and the hero of a series of stories by science fiction writer C. L. Moore.

Story setting

Smith is a spaceship pilot and smuggler who lives in an undisclosed future time when humanity has colonized the solar system.
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Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911–April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore. She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction.
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Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and the Territory North West of the Ohio, was a governmental region within the early United States. The Northwest Ordinance, passed by the Continental Congress on July 13, 1787, provided for the administration of
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Northwest Territories
Territoires du Nord-Ouest

Flag Coat of arms
Motto: none

Capital Yellowknife
Largest city Yellowknife
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Pacific Northwest, abbreviated PNW, or PacNW is a region in the northwest of North America. There are several partially overlapping definitions but the term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory (aka the Great Northwest) or the
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Northwest University may refer to:
  • Northwest University, China a university founded 1902 in China
  • Northwest University, United States a university founded 1934 in the United States

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Kirkland, Washington

Seal
Nickname: The Little City That Could
Location of Kirkland within King County, Washington, and King County within Washington.
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North West Australia and North Western Australia is an imprecise and unofficial geographical term which has a number of different definitions and may refer to the following areas:

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North-West is one of the districts of Botswana. It was formed in 2001 by combining the districts of Chobe with Ngamiland.

North-West's location in the country causes it to share borders with the following foreign areas:
  • Omaheke Region, Namibia - southwest

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North West England is one of the nine official regions of England. It has a population of 6,853,200[1]
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For the 1959 British film see Northwest Frontier


The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) (Urdu: shemaal maghribi sarhadi soobe شمال مغربی سرحدی
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North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mmabatho. It was created after the end of Apartheid in 1994, and includes parts of the former Transvaal province and Cape Province, as well as most of the former Bantustan of Bophuthatswana.
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The North-West University is a newly merged institution from 1 January 2004 onwards with four campuses at Potchefstroom, Mafikeng, Vanderbijlpark and Mankwe. The Potchefstroom Campus (founded in 1869) is the largest, and the head office of the University is situated at this
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Wells Fargo & Co.

Public (NYSE:  WFC )
Founded New York, New York, USA (March 18, 1852)
Headquarters 420 Montgomery, San Francisco, California, USA

Key people Richard Kovacevich, Chairman

John Stumpf, President and CEO
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The Nor'west arch is a weather pattern peculiar to the east coast of New Zealand's South Island. For this reason, it is also often referred to as the Canterbury arch.
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Nord-Ouest Department



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Capital | Port-de-Paix

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