Portland, Oregon (usa)

Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon ranks 140th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Asunción, Saitama (city), and Osaka. Memorable people born in Portland, Oregon include Linus Pauling, D. B. Cooper, and Douglas Engelbart. Memorable people who died in Portland, Oregon include Ursula K. Le Guin, William Hurt, and Ernest Bloch. Portland, Oregon has been the birth place of many actors and basketball players and the death place of many writers and composers. Portland, Oregon is located in United States.

Portland is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon. 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, Oregon's most populous county. As of 2020, Portland's population was 652,503, making it the 26th-most populous city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro, OR–WA metropolitan statistical area, making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia