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Portland is a city at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. With a population of 562,690[1] it is Oregon's most populous city, and the third most populous city in the Pacific Northwest, after Vancouver, British Columbia and Seattle, Washington. Approximately two million people live in the surrounding metropolitan area (MSA), the 23rd most populous in the United States