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Why do they call portland OR PDX?


Why do they call portland OR PDX?

PDX is the 3 letter code for baggage tags routed for the Portland Airport. Over the years, PDX has been used as a hip, informal name for Portland, especially in the alternative press. The more it was used, the more it became a sort-of mainstream term for naming things in Portland, or the city itself.

Yes, this is different than the typical usage in most cities, where if you use the airport's letters for something, you pretty much know they are referring to the airport itself.

PDX is the code for Portland, used by the airport.

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