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West Georgia Wolves football
The West Georgia Wolves football team, formerly the West Georgia Braves, represents the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia, and joined Division I FCS in 2024.
West Germanic languages
West Germanic: branch of the Germanic family including English, Frisian, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low German, German, and Yiddish; descended from Proto-West Germanic, marked by the High German consonant shift and a continental dialect continuum.
West Germany
West Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD), the Bonn Republic, was the state formed from the three Western occupation zones on 23 May 1949 under the Basic Law and lasting until East Germany's accession on 3 October 1990.
West Germany at the Paralympics
West Germany competed as a distinct Paralympic delegation from 1964 to 1988, winning 786 Summer and 110 Winter medals before the unified German team competed from 1992.
West Godavari district (పశ్చిమ గోదావరి జిల్లా)
West Godavari district (పశ్చిమ గోదావరి జిల్లా, Paschima Godavari Jilla), an Andhra Pradesh district formed 4 April 2022 with headquarters at Bhimavaram, 20 mandals, 2178.4 sq km, paddy and aquaculture economy.
West Greece
West Greece (Περιφέρεια Δυτικής Ελλάδας), one of Greece's 13 regions, second-level local government; capital Patras; regional units Aetolia-Acarnania, Achaea, Ilia; 11,350 km², 680,190 people (2021), gateway to Western Europe via Patras port.
West Hall
West Hall is the name of several historic buildings, most prominently a Grade I listed country house in Folke, Dorset, and a Grade II house in Kew, London.
West Ham United F.C.
West Ham United F.C., the Hammers, English football club founded 1895 as Thames Ironworks FC, reformed 5 July 1900; FA Cup 1964, 1975, 1980, European Cup Winners' Cup 1965, Conference League 2023; London Stadium home since 2016; relegated to Championship in 2026.
West Harerghe Zone
West Harerghe Zone (Mirab Hararghe) is a zone of Oromia Regional State, eastern Ethiopia, capital Chiro, 15 districts plus Bedessa; drought-prone mixed crop-livestock farming of khat, coffee, sorghum, and maize.
West Herzegovina Canton
West Herzegovina Canton (Županija Zapadnohercegovačka), a Croat-majority canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina founded 1996, seat Široki Brijeg, area 1,362.2 km², 94,898 inhabitants (2013), trade-dominated economy.
West Highland White Terrier
West Highland White Terrier (Westie), also called Poltalloch or Roseneath Terrier, a small white Scottish terrier from Cairn ancestry, recognized 1907–1908, long-lived (13.4 years), prone to allergic skin and dental disease.
West Hollywood, California
West Hollywood, California: a 1.9-square-mile city incorporated in 1984, first U.S. city with a majority openly gay council; about 35,000 residents, the Sunset Strip, and the planned K Line extension.
West India Docks
The West India Docks, opened in 1802 on the Isle of Dogs in east London, were London's first commercial wet docks, built to trade in Caribbean sugar and rum.
West India Regiments
The West India Regiments were infantry units of the regular British Army, raised from 1795 and recruited mainly from men of African descent, serving the Caribbean colonies until 1927.
West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1984–85
West Indies in Australia 1984-85, the Frank Worrell Trophy tour under Clive Lloyd: West Indies won the five-Test series 3-1, completed a then-record eleven straight Test wins, and Lloyd retired after the Sydney defeat.
West Indian cricket team in India in 2018–19
West Indies cricket team in India in 2018–19: October–November 2018 tour of India, 2 Tests, 5 ODIs, 3 T20Is; India won all three series (2–0, 3–1, 3–0), with Kohli's 10,000th ODI run and Rohit's record fourth T20I century.
West Indian cricket team in India in 2026–27
West Indies in India 2026-27: white-ball tour, 27 Sep-17 Oct 2026, 3 ODIs and 5 T20Is. India won ODIs 2-1; T20Is drawn 2-2 after rain. Hope captained West Indies; Gill (ODI) and Iyer (T20I) led India.
West Indian manatee
West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), the sea cow, a large herbivorous sirenian of Florida, the Caribbean, and Brazil, with Florida and Antillean subspecies, about 13,000 animals, threatened under the ESA since 2017.
West Indies
The West Indies is a Caribbean archipelago of more than 7,000 islands stretching from the Florida Keys to Venezuela, divided into the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, and Bahamas.
West Indies Associated States
The West Indies Associated States were six Eastern Caribbean territories, including Antigua, Dominica, and Grenada, that became states in free association with the United Kingdom in 1967.
West Indies cricket team
The West Indies men's cricket team, run by Cricket West Indies, fields players from across the Caribbean; it dominated Test cricket from 1974 to 1991 before a long decline.
West Indies Federation
The West Indies Federation was a political union of ten British Caribbean island colonies, including Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados, existing from 1958 until its dissolution in May 1962.
West Indies, Ltd.
West Indies, Ltd. is a 1934 poetry collection by Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, his second book and first with political overtones, published in Havana and denouncing foreign exploitation of the Antilles.
West Jakarta
West Jakarta (Jakarta Barat), one of five non-autonomous administrative cities of DKI Jakarta, 126.58 km², eight districts, historic Oud Batavia core and Glodok Chinatown, trade-and-services economy, HDI 85.18 (2025).
West Japan Railway
West Japan Railway Company, known as JR West, is a Japanese passenger railway company headquartered in Osaka, formed in 1987 when Japanese National Railways was privatized.
West Java
West Java (Jawa Barat), Indonesia's most populated province with 18% of the national population, faces high internal development inequality: Williamson Index averaging 0.7180 (2015-2024) and a Gini ratio of 0.428 in 2022.
West Jordan
West Jordan, Utah: third-largest city in Utah (116,961 in 2020), a Salt Lake County suburb on the west bank of the Jordan River, settled 1849, incorporated 1941/1945, with 4,600 undeveloped acres.
West Kazakhstan
West Kazakhstan Region (Батыс Қазақстан облысы), a Kazakh oblast in the northwest with center Uralsk, area 151,339 km², population about 694,000, gas-based economy bordering five Russian oblasts.
West Kennet Long Barrow
West Kennet Long Barrow (South Long Barrow) is a Cotswold-Severn Neolithic chambered tomb near Avebury, Wiltshire, built around 3650 BC, 104 m long, with five chambers holding remains of 30 to 46 people, sealed around 2000 BC.
West Kingfish Oil and Gas Field
West Kingfish is an oil field in the Gippsland Basin off Victoria, Australia, developed from a platform by Esso and BHP between 1982 and 1984, now decommissioned.