Northwest
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Northwest or north west is the ordinal direction halfway between north and west on a compass. It is the opposite of southeast.
Traditional wind point [edit]
The traditional[clarification needed] wind point is: Mistral.[citation needed]
Geographic regions [edit]
The terms northwest and north west are often used by themselves to refer to the northwestern sector of a geographic area, or to entities based in such a region.
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