Portland, Oregon (usa)

Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon ranks 139th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Newark, New Jersey, Kansas City, Missouri, and Hammersmith. Memorable people born in Portland, Oregon include Linus Pauling, Douglas Engelbart, and D. B. Cooper. Memorable people who died in Portland, Oregon include Mayo Methot, 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 actors. Portland, Oregon is located in United States.

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located in the Pacific Northwest at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the 28th-most populous city in the United States, sixth most populous on the West Coast, and third most populous in the Pacific Northwest with a population of 652,503 at the 2020 census, while the Portland metropolitan area with over 2.54 million residents is the 26th-largest metropolitan area in the nation. Almost half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metro area. It is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county. Read more on Wikipedia