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West Lafayette, Indiana
West Lafayette, Indiana: Tippecanoe County city across the Wabash River from Lafayette, home of Purdue University (founded 1869). 2020 population 44,595; renamed from Chauncey in 1888; SK Hynix $3.87 billion plant announced 2024.
West Lake
West Lake (西湖, Xī Hú) is a freshwater lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, whose pagodas and causeways made it one of the most depicted sites in Chinese art.
West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou
West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou (杭州西湖文化景观), a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2011 under criteria ii, iii, vi, comprising West Lake, surrounding hills, causeways, islands, and ten poetic Southern Song views that shaped East Asian garden design.
West Langton
West Langton, Leicestershire, near Market Harborough: village with a Romano-British villa north of Langton Brook and a mixed-rite 5th-6th century Anglo-Saxon cemetery, excavated by Time Team in 2010. Distinct from West Langdon, Kent.
West London
West London: western sector of Greater London; London Plan sub-region of six boroughs (Hammersmith & Fulham, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow), ~1.5 million people, defined by Heathrow, the A40/M4 corridors, and the West London Alliance.
West Lothian
West Lothian, a Scottish council area on the Firth of Forth between Edinburgh and Glasgow, formerly Linlithgowshire; administrative centre Livingston; population 187,240 in 2025, one of Scotland's fastest-growing areas.
West Macedonia Lignite Centre
The West Macedonia Lignite Centre is a network of surface lignite mines in the Ptolemaida basin of northern Greece, operated by Greece's Public Power Corporation.
West Mebon Vishnu
The West Mebon Vishnu is a monumental Khmer bronze of the god Vishnu reclining on the serpent Ananta, found at Angkor, Cambodia, in 1936 and known as Cambodia's "Mona Lisa".
West Meets East
West Meets East is a 1967 Angel Records album pairing sitarist Ravi Shankar and violinist Yehudi Menuhin, recorded at Abbey Road Studio Three in July 1966 after their Bath Festival debut. It won the 1968 Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance and topped classical charts for six months.
West Memphis Three
The West Memphis Three, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr., were convicted in 1994 of the 1993 West Memphis, Arkansas murders of three eight-year-old boys, released in 2011 via Alford plea after DNA testing excluded them, and continue seeking exoneration.
West Meon
West Meon is a civil parish in Hampshire, England, situated in the South Downs National Park on the River Meon. It was named for 6th-century Jutish settlers.
West Mesa murders
The West Mesa murders are the unsolved killings of 11 women whose skeletal remains were found in makeshift graves on Albuquerque's West Mesa in February 2009.
West Michigan
West Michigan is the Lake Michigan shoreline region of Michigan anchored by Grand Rapids; its workforce area holds 1,484,700 people, the state's lowest-unemployment, second-lowest-poverty Michigan Works! area, and leads projected job growth.
West Midlands (county)
West Midlands (county) is one of six English metropolitan counties, created 1974, covering Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, and Wolverhampton; its county council was abolished in 1986, leaving unitary districts under the West Midlands Combined Authority and an elected mayor.
West Midlands (region)
West Midlands (ONS E12000005, ITL TLG): one of nine statistical regions of England, established 1994; landlocked, 13,000 sq km, population 5,860,706; contains Birmingham conurbation and West Midlands Combined Authority.
West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Metro, formerly the Midland Metro, is a light rail tram network in England connecting Birmingham and Wolverhampton, opened in 1999 and expanding into the Black Country.
West Midlands Trains
West Midlands Trains is a British train operating company that ran the West Midlands rail franchise from 2017 until 2026, under the West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway brands.
West Montrose Covered Bridge
The West Montrose Covered Bridge, known locally as the Kissing Bridge, is a covered wooden bridge built in 1881 over the Grand River in Ontario.
West Mulholland
West Mulholland is an American actor from San Clemente, California, known for Ryan in Soderbergh's Presence (2024), Mitch Crenshaw in Dark Harvest (2023), Axel on Animal Kingdom, and Stanford class of 2027.
West Muswellbrook Coal Mine
The West Muswellbrook Coal Mine is a proposed open-cut coal mine about 12 km northwest of Muswellbrook, New South Wales, promoted from 2014 and never developed past the pre-permit stage.
West New Britain Province
West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea: western New Britain island, capital Kimbe, three districts, 368,643 people (2024 census), leading palm oil producer, about 40 volcanoes including Ulawun.
West New Guinea transfer
The West New Guinea transfer was the 1962 to 1963 handover of western New Guinea from the Netherlands to Indonesia through interim United Nations administration.
West Nile fever
West Nile fever, the febrile illness from West Nile virus (WNV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus; 80% asymptomatic, under 1% neuroinvasive, no human vaccine; first isolated Uganda 1937, spread to Americas in 1999.
West Nile virus
West Nile virus (WNV), a Flaviviridae flavivirus discovered in Uganda in 1937, spreads between birds and Culex mosquitoes; humans are dead-end hosts, ~1 in 150 infections severe, no human vaccine, established in the Americas since 1999.
West Nile virus in the United States
West Nile virus in the United States is the endemic transmission of a mosquito-borne virus first detected in New York City in 1999, the leading cause of domestically acquired mosquito-borne disease.
West Northamptonshire
West Northamptonshire: unitary authority in the East Midlands, England, created 1 April 2021 from Daventry, Northampton, and South Northamptonshire districts; population 425,700 (2021 census).
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord: Norwegian UNESCO natural World Heritage site, inscribed 2005, criteria vii–viii; 122,712 ha serial property, type locality for fjords, zero-emission ship rules from 2026.
West Nusa Tenggara
West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Barat, NTB) is an Indonesian province of Lombok and Sumbawa, capital Mataram, formed 17 December 1958, home to Sasak, Samawa, and Mbojo cultures and the volcanoes Rinjani and Tambora.
West of the Tracks
West of the Tracks (铁西区, Tiexi qu) is Wang Bing's nine-hour, three-part DV documentary (1999–2001 filming, released 2002–2003) on the collapse of Shenyang's Tiexi state-owned industrial district and its laid-off workers.
West Orange, New Jersey
West Orange, New Jersey is a township in Essex County about 13 miles west of New York City, home to Thomas Edison's laboratory and 48,843 residents in 2020.