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Oregon and Pacific Northwest

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Difference between Oregon and Pacific Northwest

Oregon vs. Pacific Northwest

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States. The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east.

Similarities between Oregon and Pacific Northwest

Oregon and Pacific Northwest have 90 things in common (in Unionpedia): African Americans, Alaska, Amazon (company), Ashland, Oregon, Assisted suicide, Beaverton, Oregon, Bend, Oregon, Bonneville Dam, Cascade Range, Civil War (college football game), Columbia District, Columbia Plateau, Columbia River, Columbia Sportswear, Crater Lake National Park, Democratic Party (United States), Eugene Emeralds, Eugene, Oregon, Fort Astoria, Fort Vancouver, Governor of Oregon, Hazelnut, Hillsboro Hops, Hillsboro, Oregon, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Hudson's Bay Company, Hydroelectricity, Idaho, Intel, Islam, ..., James Cook, John McLoughlin, Juan José Pérez Hernández, Kate Brown, Lewis and Clark Expedition, List of colleges and universities in Oregon, Major League Soccer, Medford, Oregon, Montana, Mount Hood, Mount St. Helens, Native Americans in the United States, New Spain, Nike, Inc., Northern California, Oceanic climate, Old Believers, Oregon Ballot Measure 16 (1994), Oregon boundary dispute, Oregon Coast, Oregon Country, Oregon Ducks, Oregon State Beavers, Oregon Supreme Court, Oregon Territory, Oregon Treaty, Pac-12 Conference, Pacific Northwest English, Pacific Ocean, Paisley Caves, Portland metropolitan area, Portland Thorns FC, Portland Timbers, Portland Trail Blazers, Portland Winterhawks, Portland, Oregon, Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii, Rocky Mountains, Salem, Oregon, Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, Salmon, Semi-arid climate, Silicon Forest, Subarctic climate, Tektronix, Temperate rainforest, Treaty of 1818, U.S. state, Umpqua Holdings Corporation, United Kingdom, United States Census Bureau, Vancouver, Washington, Volcano, Washington (state), Western Hockey League, Weyerhaeuser, Willamette Valley, Wilsonville, Oregon, Wyoming, 49th parallel north. Expand index (60 more) »

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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Ashland, Oregon

Ashland is a city in Jackson County, in the State of Oregon.

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Assisted suicide

Assisted suicide is suicide committed with the aid of another person, sometimes a physician.

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Beaverton, Oregon

Beaverton is a city in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Bend, Oregon

Bend is a city in, and the county seat of, Deschutes County, Oregon, United States.

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Bonneville Dam

Bonneville Lock and Dam consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1.

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Cascade Range

The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California.

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Civil War (college football game)

The Civil War is the colloquial name for an American college football rivalry game played annually in Oregon, between the Ducks of the University of Oregon in Eugene and the Beavers of Oregon State University in Corvallis.

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Columbia District

The Columbia District was a fur trading district in the Pacific Northwest region of British North America in the 19th century.

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Columbia Plateau

The Columbia Plateau or Columbia Basin is a geographic region located almost entirely in Eastern Washington and north-central Oregon—with the eastern edge spilling over into North Idaho The area is characterized by its mostly semi-arid climate (Bsk under the Köppen classification)—with some areas falling under the desert (BWk) and mediterranean (Csa and Csb) classifications—resulting in a shrub-steppe environment.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Columbia Sportswear

Columbia Sportswear Company is an American company that manufactures and distributes outerwear, sportswear, and footwear.

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Crater Lake National Park

Crater Lake National Park is an American national park located in southern Oregon.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Eugene Emeralds

The Eugene Emeralds (nicknamed the Ems) are a minor league baseball team in the northwest United States, based in Eugene, Oregon.

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Eugene, Oregon

Eugene is a city of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Fort Astoria

Fort Astoria (also named Fort George) was the primary fur trading post of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company (PFC).

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Fort Vancouver

Fort Vancouver was a 19th-century fur trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department, located in the Pacific Northwest.

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Governor of Oregon

The Governor of Oregon is the head of the executive branch of Oregon's state government and serves as the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Hazelnut

The hazelnut is the nut of the hazel and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus Corylus, especially the nuts of the species Corylus avellana.

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Hillsboro Hops

The Hillsboro Hops are a minor league baseball team in the northwest United States, located in Hillsboro, Oregon, a suburb west of Portland.

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Hillsboro, Oregon

Hillsboro is the fifth-largest city in the State of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and Spain.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.

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Idaho

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.

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Intel

Intel Corporation (stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

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John McLoughlin

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Juan José Pérez Hernández

Juan José Pérez Hernández (born Joan Perés ca. 1725 – November 3, 1775), often simply Juan Pérez, was an 18th-century Spanish explorer.

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Kate Brown

Katherine Brown (born June 21, 1960) is an American politician who is the 38th and current Governor of Oregon.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.

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List of colleges and universities in Oregon

This is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by U.S. Soccer that represents the sport's highest level in both the United States and Canada.

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Medford, Oregon

Medford is a city in, and county seat of, Jackson County, Oregon, United States.

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Montana

Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.

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Mount Hood

Mount Hood, called Wy'east by the Multnomah tribe, is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc of northern Oregon.

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Mount St. Helens

Mount St.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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New Spain

The Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de la Nueva España) was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services.

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Northern California

Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal or "The Northstate" for the northern interior counties north of Sacramento to the Oregon stateline) is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Old Believers

In Eastern Orthodox church history, the Old Believers, or Old Ritualists (старове́ры or старообря́дцы, starovéry or staroobryádtsy) are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Eastern Orthodox Church as they existed prior to the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666.

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Oregon Ballot Measure 16 (1994)

Measure 16 of 1994 established the U.S. state of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (ORS 127.800-995), which legalizes medical aid in dying (commonly referred to as physician-assisted suicide) with certain restrictions.

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Oregon boundary dispute

The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a controversy over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations over the region.

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Oregon Coast

The Oregon Coast is a region of the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Oregon Country

The Oregon Country was a predominantly American term referring to a disputed region of the Pacific Northwest of North America.

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Oregon Ducks

The Oregon Ducks are the athletic teams that represent the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.

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Oregon State Beavers

The Oregon State Beavers are the athletic teams that represent Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.

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Oregon Supreme Court

The Oregon Supreme Court (OSC) is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Oregon Territory

The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.

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Oregon Treaty

The Oregon Treaty is a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.C. Signed under the presidency of James K. Polk, the treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country; the area had been jointly occupied by both Britain and the U.S. since the Treaty of 1818.

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Pac-12 Conference

The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level.

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Pacific Northwest English

Pacific Northwest English (also known, in the United States, as Northwest English) is a variety of North American English that is geographically defined as being spoken in the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon, sometimes also including Idaho and the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Paisley Caves

The Paisley Caves complex is a system of four caves in an arid, desolate region of south-central Oregon, United States north of the present-day city of Paisley, Oregon.

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Portland metropolitan area

The Portland metropolitan area or Greater Portland is a metropolitan area in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington centered on the principal city of Portland, Oregon.

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Portland Thorns FC

The Portland Thorns FC is an American professional women's soccer team based in Portland, Oregon.

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Portland Timbers

The Portland Timbers are an American professional soccer club based in Portland, Oregon.

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Portland Trail Blazers

The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon.

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Portland Winterhawks

The Portland Winterhawks are a junior ice hockey team based in Portland, Oregon, playing in the Western Hockey League (WHL), one of three leagues making up the Canadian Hockey League (CHL).

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii

Pseudotsuga menziesii var.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Salem, Oregon

Salem is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County.

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Salem-Keizer Volcanoes

The Salem-Keizer Volcanoes are a minor league baseball team in Keizer, Oregon, United States.

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Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.

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Silicon Forest

Silicon Forest is a nickname for the cluster of high-tech companies located in the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon, and most frequently refers to the industrial corridor between Beaverton and Hillsboro in northwest Oregon.

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Subarctic climate

The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, subalpine climate, or boreal climate) is a climate characterised by long, usually very cold winters, and short, cool to mild summers.

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Tektronix

Tektronix, Inc., historically widely known as "Tek", is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment.

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Temperate rainforest

Temperate rainforests are coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rainfall.

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Treaty of 1818

The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary and the restoration of slaves between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, also known as the London Convention, Anglo-American Convention of 1818, Convention of 1818, or simply the Treaty of 1818, was an international treaty signed in 1818 between the above parties.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Umpqua Holdings Corporation

Umpqua Holdings Corporation, d.b.a. Umpqua Bank, is a financial holding company based in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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Vancouver, Washington

Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, and the largest suburb of Portland, Oregon.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Western Hockey League

The Western Hockey League (WHL) is a major junior ice hockey league based in Western Canada and the Northwestern United States.

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Weyerhaeuser

Weyerhaeuser (pronounced "Warehouser") Company, is one of the world's largest private owners of timberlands, owning or controlling nearly 12.4 million acres of timberlands in the U.S. and managing additional 14.0 million acres timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada.

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Willamette Valley

The Willamette Valley is a long valley in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Wilsonville, Oregon

Wilsonville is a city primarily in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.

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49th parallel north

The 49th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 49° north of Earth's equator.

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The list above answers the following questions

Oregon and Pacific Northwest Comparison

Oregon has 653 relations, while Pacific Northwest has 664. As they have in common 90, the Jaccard index is 6.83% = 90 / (653 + 664).

References

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