West (disambiguation)

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West is a cardinal direction or compass point.

West or The West may also refer to:

Geography and locations

Global context

  • The Western world
  • Western culture and Western civilization in general
  • The Western Bloc, countries allied with NATO during the Cold War
  • The Occident, an early-modern term originated with geographical divisions mirroring the cultural divide between the Hellenistic east and Latin West, and the political divide between the Western and Eastern Roman empires

Regional contexts

  • West River (disambiguation)
  • The American frontier, also called "The Old West" or "The Wild West", an American process of westward movement from 1600 to 1920
  • The Western Regions, a historical term for regions of Chinese suzerainty in Central Asia
  • Western Territories (Ziemie Zachodnie) or Recovered Territories (Ziemie Odzyskane), Former eastern territories of Germany annexed to Poland
  • West (Cornish hundred) or West Wivelshire, a county subdivision of Cornwall, England
  • West (London sub region), a sub-region of the London Plan
  • West Region (Cameroon)
  • West, Mississippi, United States
  • West, Texas, United States
  • West, West Virginia, United States
  • Western United States, a region in the United States of America
  • West Township (disambiguation); all are in the United States
  • Western Australia
  • West Bengal
  • Western Canada
  • Canada West
  • West Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Astronomical locations

  • Comet West, a comet discovered by Danish astronomer Richard M. West
  • 2022 West, an asteroid

Acronyms

People and fictional characters

  • West (name), list of people with surname West
  • Justice West (disambiguation)
  • West Rosen, a fictional character from the television series Heroes

Film, television, and radio

  • West (2007 film), a 2007 Australian drama directed by Daniel Krige
  • West (2013 film), a German drama film directed by Christian Schwochow
  • The West (1938 film), a 1938 French drama film
  • The West (miniseries), a 1996 television documentary miniseries directed by Stephen Ives
  • West (TV series), a 1973–74 Canadian documentary series
  • WEST (AM), a radio station (1400 AM) licensed to Easton, Pennsylvania, United States
  • West (publisher), an American publisher
  • "West" (short story), a story by Orson Scott Card
  • The West (Mayakovsky), a 1922–1924 poetry cycle by Vladimir Mayakovsky
  • West magazine, published in two separate periods by the Los Angeles Times (and otherwise known as the Los Angeles Times Magazine)
  • San Jose Mercury News West Magazine or West, a Sunday magazine that succeeded the L.A. Times' West magazine
  • The West Australian, a newspaper

Music

  • West (EP), an album by Ego Likeness
  • West (Lucinda Williams album), 2007, or the title song
  • West (Mark Eitzel album)
  • The West (album), an album by Matmos, or the title song
  • "West" (song), a rock song by The Alice Rose
  • "West", a 2001 song by rock duo Pinback from their album Blue Screen Life

Organizations

Other uses

See also

Search for "west" on Wikipedia.
  • All pages with titles beginning with West
  • Westlife, an Irish band
  • Western (disambiguation)
  • Wests (disambiguation)
  • Ouest (department), Haiti
  • Ouest (disambiguation), French for West
  • Oeste Subregion, Portugal
  • Oeste (disambiguation), Portuguese and Spanish for West
  • All articles with "West" in the title
Topics referred to by the same term
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