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Area codes. 206, 253, 360, 425, 564. Puget Sound, its basins, and major surrounding cities. The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains.
Puget Sound ( / ˈpjuːdʒɪt / PEW-jit; Lushootseed: x̌ʷəlč IPA: [ˈχʷəlt͡ʃ] WHULCH) [1] [2] is a sound on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine [5] system of interconnected marine waterways and basins.
Website. www .multco .us. Multnomah County / mʌltˈnoʊmə / is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 815,428. [ 1] Multnomah County is part of the Portland – Vancouver – Hillsboro, OR–WA metropolitan statistical area. The state's smallest and most populous county, [ 2] its ...
The Puget Sound faults under the heavily populated Puget Sound region (Puget Lowland) of Washington state form a regional complex of interrelated seismogenic (earthquake-causing) geologic faults. These include (from north to south, see map) the: Devils Mountain Fault. Strawberry Point and Utsalady Point faults.
Coordinates: 47°27′1″N 122°22′56″W. Three Tree Point, from the south looking west across Puget Sound towards the Olympic Mountains. Aerial view of Three Tree Point with Burien and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Three Tree Point is a low, gravelly, triangle-shaped spit jutting into the east side of Puget Sound.
East County. Region of the Portland Metro Area. Troutdale, one of the cities in East County. County. Multnomah County. Population. 158,938. East County is a region of Multnomah County, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area. [1] [2] It is generally defined as being the entirety of Multnomah County east of Portland.
South Puget Sound is the southern reaches of Puget Sound in Southwest Washington, in the United States' Pacific Northwest. It is one of five major basins encompassing the entire Sound, and the shallowest basin, with a mean depth of 37 meters (121 ft). [1] [2] Exact definitions of the region vary: [a] the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife ...
The Pacific Northwest ( PNW ), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common conception includes the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, northern ...