What If The Pacific Northwest Was A Country? It Would Be An Economic Power!

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Cascadia is a budding regional identity for the Pacific Northwest region of North America. While there's little hope of the region ever becoming its own country, it's become a popular idea to imagine. After all, the major metropolitan areas of Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver all share a closeness to each other that they lack with other major regions of their respective countries. But what if Cascadia was its own country? Let's find out!

NOTE: I opted for the three-state approach to imagining Cascadia. I know many prefer the bioregion as the imagined borders, but it was simply impossible to gather accurate data based on those boundaries (which are comprised of watersheds).

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Read more about Cascadia here:

Bioregion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadi...)
Independence movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadi...)
CascadiaNow!: https://www.cascadianow.org/

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