Northwest Territories, Canadian territory

Northwest Airlines, a large airline headquartered in the United States

Northwest Passage, a sea route traversing Canada's Arctic archipelago.

North West England, region

Pacific Northwest, unofficial region in the United States and Canada

North-West Frontier Province, Pakistani province

Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo)

The Northwest Territory, historical region roughly overlapping today's Midwestern United States

Northwest Ordinance, U.S. ordinance outlining the provisions of accepting a new state

Northwest School, arts high school in Seattle

Northwest Province, Cameroon

The Nor'wester wind and associated Nor'west arch, a weather pattern in southern New Zealand

North West Province, a province of South Africa

North-West District, Botswana

Nord-Ouest Department, Haiti

Northwest High School, a name for several high schools

North-West University, a university in South Africa

Northwestern may refer to: Northwestern University, a large American research university, located in Evanston, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois Other colleges and universities Northwestern College (Iowa), a small Christian college in Iowa. Northwestern...

North West Australia, an unofficial geographical region

Northwest Passage (disambiguation) also points to less common usages of the same term.

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 Highlands, an area of Scotland

Northwest Smith, a character in science fiction stories by C. L. Moore

Northwest University A small Christian university in Kirkland, Washington

Tay Bac, literally Northwest Vietnam