As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

Most modern Pueblo peoples ( whether Keresans, Hopi, or Tanoans ) assert the ancient Pueblo did not " vanish ", as is commonly portrayed in media presentations or popular books, but migrated to areas in the southwest with more favorable rainfall and dependable streams.

Armenia is located in southern Transcaucasia, the region southwest of Russia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

Armenia is bordered on the north by Georgia, on the east by Azerbaijan, on the southwest by the Nakhchivan Republic of Azerbaijan, on the south by Iran, and on the west by Turkey.

To the southwest of the range is the Armenian Plateau, which slopes southwestward toward the Araks River on the Turkish border.

Terrain is most rugged in the extreme southeast, which is drained by the Bargushat River, and most moderate in the Araks River valley to the extreme southwest.

Although the general direction of the mountains, ridges, and valleys is northeast and southwest, irregularity is one of the most prominent characteristics.

In the northeast are several flat-topped mountains, of which Raccoon and Lookout are the most prominent, having a maximum elevation near the Georgia line of little more than and gradually decreasing in height toward the southwest, where Sand Mountain is a continuation of Raccoon.

This is crossed by foot-hills and rolling prairies in the central part of the state, where it has a mean elevation of about, becomes lower and more level toward the southwest, and in the extreme south is flat and but slightly elevated above the sea.

The Cumberland Plateau region is drained to the west-northwest by the Tennessee River and its tributaries ; all other parts of the state are drained to the southwest.

The average annual temperature is highest in the southwest along the coast, and lowest in the northeast among the highlands.

Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around 30 km southwest of Regensburg, 40 km east of Ingolstadt, 50 northwest of Landshut and 100 km north of Munich.

Its basin is surrounded by ( north ) Amguyema River and Palyavaam River, ( northwest ) Bolshoy Anyuy River and the Oloy branch of the Omolon River and ( southwest ) Penzhina River.

On the border of Sweden is a mountain range running from northeast to southwest.

The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest region near the Cape.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

Abano Terme ( known as Abano Bagni until 1930 ) is a town and comune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei ; it is 10 kilometers southwest by rail from Padua.

It is located in the southwest part of the state, about southwest of Macon, Georgia on the Central of Georgia railroad.

Ansbach is situated southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat ( Rezat River ), a tributary of the Main river.

* Copes Corner – A hamlet southwest of Gilbertsville on NY-51, most noted for a county owned campgrounds on the Butternut Creek, once site of a proposed flood control dam that would have flooded Gilbertsville and much of the valley.

Periodic incursions of shallow seas from the north during the Jurassic flooded parts of Wyoming, Montana, and a northeast – southwest trending trough on the Utah / Idaho border.

To the southwest is the large, flooded crater Fracastorius.

To the southwest is the flooded remnants of Thebit P, which is actually larger in diameter than Thebit itself.

The floor of Schickard has been partially flooded by lava, leaving only the southwest portion uncovered and rough-textured.

Oersted is a lunar crater that has been flooded by lava, leaving only a crescent-shaped rim with a gap to the southwest.

It lies to the southwest of the prominent crater Bullialdus, and northwest of the flooded Kies.

The flooded crater remnant Guericke F is attached to the southwest exterior.

The rim of Loewy is worn and eroded, with a break in the southwest where lava may have flooded into the interior from the surrounding lunar mare.

Arable fields surround the lake, except in the south and southwest where extensive seasonally flooded salt-steppe occurs.

It lies just to the southwest of the larger, flooded Babcock.

Along the western side is the flooded crater Stadius and the Mare Insularum to the southwest.

It is located midway between the flooded crater Lebedev to the southwest and Bjerknes to the northeast.

The crater is located south of the Snares Islands ( southwest of Stewart Island ) on the southern New Zealand shelf and is approximately wide.

The Mien crater, the result of a meteorite impact some 120 million years ago, lies 11 km southwest of Tingsryd.

Odessa Meteor Crater, an impact crater with in diameter, is located southwest of the city.

* On October 29, 1963, two Aeronautical Chart and Information Center cartographers, James A. Greenacre and Edward Barr, at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, manually recorded very bright red, orange, and pink colour phenomena on the southwest side of Cobra Head ; a hill southeast of the lunar valley Vallis Schröteri ; and the southwest interior rim of the Aristarchus crater.

To the west-southwest is the larger crater Sacrobosco, and to the southwest is the irregular Pons.

This range is located in the northern part of the Mare Imbrium, to the southwest of the crater Plato.

Beer lies in the southwest of Meridiani Planum, about 8 ° from the prime meridian and about 10 ° west from the crater Mädler.

And the internal parts of the crater are asymmetric in such a way as to imply that the impact was oblique from the southwest.

Mishina Gora is an impact crater in European Russia, 180 kilometres southwest of St. Petersburg.

The rim is broken in the southwest by the smaller crater Klein.

Bancroft is a small, bowl-shaped impact crater located to the southwest of Archimedes on the Mare Imbrium.

There are some clefts at the edge of the mare to the west and southwest of the crater.

To the southwest the rim is attached to the crater Fabricius.

To the southwest is the larger crater Plinius.

To the southwest is the small crater Auwers, and to the southwest is the even smaller Daubrée.

Low ridges in the mare lie between this crater and Fracastorius to the southwest.

Bayer is a lunar impact crater located in the southwest section of the moon, to the east of the crater Schiller.

To the southwest is the crater Krafft and to the northwest lies Briggs.

Bessarion is a lunar impact crater located near the southwest edge of Mare Imbrium.

Brayley is a lunar impact crater located in the southwest part of the Mare Imbrium.

Sirsalis is a relatively young lunar impact crater located near the western lunar limb, to the southwest of the Oceanus Procellarum.