Portland is a city located
in the U.S. state of Oregon, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia
rivers. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, estimated to
have reached 587,865 in 2012, making it the 28th most populous city in the
United States. Portland is Oregon's most populous city, and the third most
populous city in the Pacific Northwest region, after Seattle, Washington, and
Vancouver, British Columbia. Approximately 2,992,924 people live in the
Portland metropolitan area (MSA), the 19th most populous MSA in the United
States
