Portland Metropolitan Area
The Portland Metropolitan Area is a region in Oregon that includes Portland, Oregon City, Hillsboro and other cities around Portland.
Cities
- 🌍 Portland
- 🌍 Aloha - a census designated place wedged between Beaverton and Hillsboro. Residents here have always resisted annexation to either Beaverton or Hillsboro
- 🌍 Beaverton - suburb 7mi/11km west of Portland growing up to become an economic powerhouse as it is home for Columbia Sportswear, Electro Scientific Industries, Nike & Tektronix.
- 🌍 Forest Grove
- 🌍 Gladstone
- 🌍 Gresham
- 🌍 Hillsboro - county seat for Washington County, one of three counties making up the greater Portland metropolitan area and also a location for one of several Intel pre-fab plants.
- 🌍 Lake Oswego
- 🌍 Milwaukie
- 🌍 Oregon City
- 🌍 Tigard
- 🌍 Troutdale
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Tualatin
- 🌍 Wilsonville
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West Linn
- 🌍 Vancouver
Understand
As well as Portland, the city proper, the area includes:
- East Multnomah County - the eastern suburbs of the city, including the cities of Gresham and Troutdale; the gateway to Mount Hood and the Columbia River Gorge.
- Washington County (Oregon) - the western suburbs of Portland, a growing high-tech area near Hillsboro and Beaverton, and home to Nike and other well-known Oregon companies. The rural areas also have wineries.
- Clackamas County - the southern and southeastern suburbs, including affluent Lake Oswego and historic Oregon City, leading to the foothills of Mount Hood.
Get in
Get around
Two main highways pass east-west through the region - Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 26 (Powell Boulevard). I-84 going east will take you into the Columbia Gorge, while U.S. 26 going east takes you up Mount Hood and into Central Oregon.
- Oregon Route 217 is another freeway that runs from Tigard to Beaverton.
The MAX Blue Line runs from downtown Portland into Gresham, terminating at the Cleveland Avenue station.
Go next
- Vancouver (WA), is sometimes included in the region even though it is across the Columbia River in Washington.
- Salem is the state capital, about an hour away.
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