Northwest

File:CompassRose (mul) 16 blue NW.svg

A compass rose with Northwest highlighted

Northwest (also written north west) is one of the eight main compass directions. It is the direction that is exactly halfway between north and west. On a compass, northwest is at 315 degrees. If you face directly north (0°) and turn 45 degrees to the left (counter-clockwise), you are facing northwest. The opposite direction is southeast, which is 135 degrees—exactly 180 degrees from northwest.

Northwest Media

• Compass-rose-32-pt.svg

  32-point compass rose with associated direction names and equivalent degrees from north. Bezel features tick-marks at 1-degree increments.

• Compass rose en 08p.svg

  Compass rose, 8 points (text labels in English)

• Brosen windrose.svg

  Compass card

• Brosen windrose Full.svg

  Compass Rose (Роза румбов)

• Bowditch1916p15CompassRose.png

  Compass rose from American Practical Navigator, 1916

• 32-point compass (traditional winds).svg

  32-wind compass with traditional names (and traditional colour code)

• Ming dynasty 24-pointed compass