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Pacific Northwest - a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia

Mount Ranier National Park - a national park in Washington having mountain terrain featuring glaciers and alpine lakes and streams and swamps

North Cascades National Park - a national park in Washington that is an alpine wilderness area featuring gold rush and logging campsites

Olympic National Park - a national park in Washington having rain forests of giant evergreens

U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

Cape Flattery - a cape of northwestern Washington

Aberdeen - a town in western Washington

Bellingham - a town in northwestern Washington on a bay near the Canadian border

Kennewick - a town in southern Washington on the Columbia River

capital of Washington, Olympia - capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound

Seattle - a major port of entry and the largest city in Washington; located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Range and Mount Ranier visible to the south and east; an aerospace and computer center; site of the University of Washington

Spokane - a city in eastern Washington near the Idaho border

Tacoma - a city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound to the south of Seattle

Vancouver - a town in southwestern Washington on the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon

Walla Walla - a town in southeastern Washington near the Oregon border

Yakima - a town in south central Washington

Mount Saint Helens, Mount St. Helens, Mt. St. Helens - an active volcano in the Cascade Range in southwestern Washington; erupted violently in 1980 after 123 years of inactivity

Mount Adams, Adams - a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high)

Lake Chelan - a narrow very deep lake in central Washington in the Cascade Range

Columbia, Columbia River - a North American river; rises in southwestern Canada and flows southward across Washington to form the border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific; known for its salmon runs in the spring

Inland Passage, Inside Passage - a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska

Puget Sound - an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State

Mount Ranier, Mount Tacoma, Mt. Ranier, Ranier - a mountain peak in central Washington; highest peak in the Cascade Range; (14,410 feet high)

scablands - (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington)

Snake River, Snake - a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition