Southwest is a compass point.

Southwest, south-west, south west, southwestern or south-western or south western may also refer to:

  • Southwest (direction), an intercardinal direction

Geography

  • South West Queensland, Australia
  • South West (Western Australia), one of the nine regions of Western Australia
  • Southwest National Park – a national park in Tasmania
  • Southwest Region (Cameroon)
  • Southwest China
  • South West Africa, a region controlled by Germany, and later, South Africa. Now the independent country of Namibia.
  • South-West Region, Ireland, a NUTS Level III region of Ireland and is governed by the South-West Regional Authority
  • South-Western Administrative Okrug, an administrative division of the federal city of Moscow, Russia
  • South West District, Singapore
  • Southwest District (Penang)
  • South West England, a region including the counties of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall
  • South West England (European Parliament constituency)
  • South West (London sub region), a subregion of the London Plan
  • South West (London Assembly constituency), a constituency represented in the London Assembly
  • SW postcode area, for south-west London, England
  • Southwestern United States
  • Southwest, Indiana, an unincorporated community in the United States
  • Southwest Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Southwest (Washington, D.C.), United States
  • South West (Nigeria)
  • South West State of Somalia, one of the six federal regions of Somalia
  • South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region, one of the eleven regional states in Ethiopia
  • Southwest Asia, an alternative name for West Asia region

Transport

  • South West Trains, a former UK train operating company
  • Southwest Airlines, the largest U.S. domestic airline, founded in 1967
  • South Western Railway (train operating company), a current UK train operating company
  • South Western Railway (disambiguation), various railway lines and companies

Former airlines

  • Air Southwest (Canada), a Canadian airline operating from 1983 to 2005
  • China Southwest Airlines, merged into Air China in 2002
  • Japan Transocean Air, an airline known as from 1967 to 1993
  • Pacific Southwest Airlines, founded in 1949 and merged into USAir in 1988
  • Southwest Airways, a defunct post-World War II domestic United States regional airline
  • Air Southwest, a British airline operating from 2003 to 2010

Former railroad routes

  • A Chicago-Los Angeles train operated by Amtrak, and now known as the Southwest Chief
  • Southwest Limited (Milwaukee Road train) formerly operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road") between Chicago/Milwaukee and Kansas City
  • Southwestern Limited (IC train), an Illinois Central train, from Meridian, Mississippi to Shreveport, Louisiana, discontinued in 1967
  • Southwestern Limited (New York Central train), a New York Central train, from New York, New York to St. Louis, Missouri, operating from 1889 to 1966

Sports

  • Southwestern Athletic Conference, a mid-major college athletic conference in the southern United States
  • Southwestern Conference (Ohio), a high school athletic conference
  • Southwest Conference, a former NCAA college athletic conference
  • Gatlin Brothers-Southwest Golf Classic, a former PGA Tour golf event
  • Southwest Region (Little League World Series), a youth baseball competition in the United States, and the largest in the world
  • South Western F.C., a 19th century association football team from Govan, Scotland

Other uses

  • Southwestern Company, an American book publisher
  • South-Western Educational Publishing, an American book publisher, now part of Cengage
  • SouthWest Energy, an Ethiopian energy company
  • Southwest (album), a collaboration album by Daz Dillinger and Nuwine
  • Southwest (film), a 2012 Brazilian film

See also

  • South West Island (disambiguation)
  • Southwest, Western Australia, a list of governmental divisions in Western Australia
  • Southwest Corridor (disambiguation)
  • Southwest University (disambiguation)
  • Southwestern University (disambiguation)
  • Southwest Region School District (SWRSD), a school district headquartered in Dillingham, Alaska
  • Sud-Ouest (disambiguation), French for southwest
  • Sud-Vest (development region), a region in Romania
  • Yugo-Zapad Municipal Okrug, a municipal okrug in Krasnoselsky District of Saint Petersburg