# West (disambiguation)

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

* Wales Evangelical School of Theology
* Western European Summer Time
* Weinstein Enhanced Sensory Test, a monofilament esthesiometer
* Western European Satellite Triangulation subcommittee of IAG
* WEST (formerly Tore Supra), 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
* West (novel), a 2018 novel by Edith Pattou

## 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