With a population of 556,000, Portland is Oregon’s largest city and the third largest in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Approximately 2 million people live in the surrounding metropolitan area, the 24th-largest in the U.S.
Portland was incorporated in 1851 and is the seat of Multnomah County. The city and region are notable for strong land-use planning and investment in public transit, supported by Metro, a distinctive regional-government scheme.
Portland lies in the Marine West Coast climate region, marked by warm summers and rainy but temperate winters, ideal for roses. Indeed, for more than a century Portland has been known as “The City of Roses”, and has many rose gardens, most famously the International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park.
Portland is also one of only two U.S. cities to contain an extinct volcano.
Traffic along the coast was named the worst tourist traffic in the United States.
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