Southwest

A compass rose with Southwest highlighted.

Southwest or south west is the ordinal direction halfway between south and west, the opposite of northeast.

Southwest or south west may also refer to:

Places

• South West Island (disambiguation)

Africa

• Southwest Region (Cameroon)
• Sud-Ouest Region (Burkina Faso)

Asia

• Southwest China
• South West Delhi, a district of Delhi, India
• South West District, Singapore

Australia

• Southwest, Western Australia, several governmental divisions in Western Australia
• South West (Western Australia), one of the nine regions of Western Australia

Europe

England

• South West England, a region including the counties of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall
• South West England (European Parliament constituency)
• SW postcode area, for south-west London

Ireland

• South (European Parliament constituency)
• Southwest Ireland, a region including the counties of Cork and Kerry
• South-West Region, Ireland, a NUTS Level III region of Ireland and is governed by the South-West Regional Authority

Romania

• Sud-Vest (development region), a region in Romania

Russia

• Yugo-Zapad (South-West) Municipal Okrug, a municipal okrug in Krasnoselsky District of Saint Petersburg

North America

• Southwestern United States, a region defined in different ways by different sources
• Southwest, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Southwest Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania
• Washington, D.C. (southwest)

Transport

• South West Trains, a UK train operating company
• Air Southwest, a British airline founded in 2003
• Southwest Airlines, the largest U.S. domestic airline, founded in 1967

Former airlines include

• Air Southwest (Canada), a Canadian airline operating from 1983 to 2005
• China Southwest Airlines, merged into Air China in 2002
• Japan Transocean Air, an airline known as Southwest Air Lines (南西航空, Nansei Kōkū) from 1967 to 1993
• Pacific Southwest Airlines, founded in 1949 and merged into USAir in 1988
• Southwest Airways, a defunct post-World War II domestic United States regional airline

Schools and universities

• Southwest University (disambiguation)
• Southwestern University (disambiguation)

Sports

• Southwestern Athletic Conference, a mid-major college athletic conference in the southern United States
• Southwestern Conference (Ohio), a high school athletic conference
• Southwest Conference, a former NCAA college football conference
• Gatlin Brothers-Southwest Golf Classic, a former PGA Tour golf event

Other

• Southwestern blot, a lab technique
• Southwestern Company, an American direct-selling book publisher
• South west Biosphere Reserve in Australia; see List of Biosphere Reserves in Australia
• Southwest (album), a collaboration album by Daz Dillinger and Nuwine
• Southwest Region (Little League World Series), the largest youth baseball competition in the world