West (disambiguation)

West is a cardinal direction or compass point.

West or The West may also refer to:

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

 * 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

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

Print media

 * 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

 * West (brewery), a microbrewery in Glasgow, Scotland
 * West Corporation, formerly West TeleServices
 * West Hartlepool R.F.C. or simply West, a rugby football club
 * West Race Cars, an American-Australian racing car manufacturer
 * West High School (disambiguation)

Other uses

 * West (cigarette), a tobacco brand
 * West, the command-line tool in Zephyr (operating system)
 * Toronto West Detention Centre, a maximum security remand facility
 * Kingdom of the West, a region within the Society for Creative Anachronism
 * One side in the East–West Shrine Game