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West is a cardinal direction or compass point.
West or The West may also refer to:
Geography
Global context
- The Western world
- Western culture and Western civilization in general
- The Western Bloc, countries allied with NATO during the Cold War
National contexts
- The American frontier, also called The Old West or The Wild West, an American process of westward movement from 1600 to 1920
- 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
- Western Australia
- Western Canada
- Canada West
Astronomy
- Comet West, a comet discovered by Danish astronomer Richard M. West
- 2022 West an asteroid
Film, television, and radio
- The West (film), a 1996 documentary directed by Stephen Ives
- West (2007 film), a 2007 Australian drama directed by Daniel Krige
- West (2013 film), a German drama film directed by Christian Schwochow
- West (TV series), a 1973–74 Canadian documentary series
- West Rosen, a fictional character from the television series Heroes
- WEST (AM), a radio station (1400 AM) licensed to Easton, Pennsylvania, United States
Literature
- 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
- San Jose Mercury News West Magazine or West, a Sunday magazine
- The West Australian, a newspaper
Music
- West (EP), an album by Ego Likeness
- West (Lucinda Williams album)
- West (Mark Eitzel album)
- "West" (song), a rock song by The Alice Rose
Acronyms
- Wales Evangelical School of Theology
- Western European Summer Time
- Weinstein Enhanced Sensory Test, a monofilament esthesiometer
- Western European Satellite Triangulation subcommittee of IAG
- WEST, Tungsten (W) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak, the name for the refitted Tore Supra tokamak reactor in Cadarache, France
Other uses
- WEST (brewery), a microbrewery in Glasgow, Scotland
- West (cigarette), a tobacco brand
- West (name), list of people with surname West
- Toronto West Detention Centre, a maximum security remand facility
- West Corporation, formerly West TeleServices
- West Hartlepool R.F.C. or simply West, a rugby football club
- West River (disambiguation)
- Kingdom of the West, a region within the Society for Creative Anachronism
- One side in the East–West Shrine Game
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with West
- Western (disambiguation)
- Western (country subdivision), a list of all subnational entities with West or Western in their name
- Wests (drink), a New Zealand manufacturer of soft drinks and cordials
- 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
- All articles with "West" and "University/College/School" in the title
- All articles with "West" and "Region/District/Province" in the title