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West is a cardinal direction or compass point.

West or The West may also refer to:

Geography and locations

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

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)
Al-Maghrib (Arabic: المغرب, lit. 'the west'), Arabic name for Morocco, a country in Northwest Africa

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

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 (TV network), a western television network
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
West (novel), a 2018 novel by Edith Pattou
The West: The History of an Idea, a 2025 book by Georgios Varouxakis
West (poetry collection), a 2023 poetry collection by Paisley Rekdal