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Area code (s) 503, 971, 360 & 564. The Portland metropolitan area is a metro area with its core in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. [ 2 ][ 3 ] It has 5 principal cities the largest being Portland, Oregon. [ 4 ] The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) identifies it as the Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro, OR–WA Metropolitan ...
41-59000. GNIS ID. 2411471 [6] Website. www .portland .gov. Portland ( / ˈpɔːrtlənd / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated in the northwestern area of the state at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County ...
Neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon. Map of Portland, Oregon's five sections, prior to the creation of South Portland in 2020. Portland, Oregon is divided into six sections: North Portland, Northeast Portland, Northwest Portland, South Portland, Southeast Portland, and Southwest Portland. There are 95 officially recognized neighborhoods, each of ...
503: The northwestern corner of Oregon, including Portland and its metropolitan area, Salem and other cities. 541: All of Oregon outside the northwestern corner, including Eugene. 971: An overlay of area code 503. Until 2008, 971 was a concentrated overlay, meaning it was only present in some parts of the 503 area.
Washington County is one of 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon and part of the Portland metropolitan area. The 2020 census recorded the population as 600,372, [ 1] making it the second most populous county in the state and most populous "Washington County" in the United States. Hillsboro is the county seat and largest city, [ 2][ 3] while ...
Oregon also contains the largest community of Russian Old Believers to be found in the U.S. [135] Judaism is the largest non-Christian religion in Oregon with more than 50,000 adherents, 47,000 of whom live in the Portland area.
Geography of Oregon. Oregon is 295 miles (475 km) north to south at longest distance, and 395 miles (636 km) east to west. With an area of 98,381 square miles (254,810 km 2 ), Oregon is slightly larger than the United Kingdom. It is the ninth largest state in the United States. [ 1]
Provisional Government of Oregon district boundaries drawn in 1843, showing eventual U.S. border and states. The history of the city of Portland, Oregon, began in 1843 when business partners William Overton and Asa Lovejoy filed to claim land on the west bank of the Willamette River in Oregon Country. In 1845 the name of Portland was chosen for ...