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West Pakistan
West Pakistan was a single Pakistani province (1955–1970) formed under the One Unit policy by merging Punjab, Sindh, NWFP, Balochistan, Karachi, and princely states, with capital Lahore, to counterbalance East Pakistan; dissolved July 1, 1970.
West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach, Florida: county seat and largest city of Palm Beach County, founded 1894 by Henry Flagler as a service town for Palm Beach; population about 127,000, downtown Brightline station, renamed Trump airport, and an active development debate.
West Papua (province)
West Papua (Provinsi Papua Barat) is an Indonesian province on western New Guinea, capital Manokwari. Created 1999 as Irian Jaya Barat, renamed 2007, split in 2022 when Southwest Papua province was carved out; a designated Conservation Province.
West Papuan languages
West Papuan languages form a tentative non-Austronesian family of the Bird's Head Peninsula and North Halmahera, supported mainly by pronoun resemblances; membership has contracted, and many regional languages are endangered.
West Philadelphia
West Philadelphia, or West Philly, is a largely residential section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, across the Schuylkill River from Center City, known for the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.
West Philippine Sea
West Philippine Sea (Kanlurang Dagat ng Pilipinas): Philippine government name, set by Administrative Order No. 29 of 5 September 2012, for western maritime areas including the Luzon Sea, Kalayaan Island Group, and Bajo de Masinloc, upheld by the 2016 arbitral award.
West Pier
The West Pier was a pleasure pier at Brighton, England, built 1863–1866 to Eugenius Birch's design and now a rusting offshore ruin after fires in 2003.
West Point Cemetery
West Point Cemetery, at the U.S. Military Academy, New York, is America's oldest military post cemetery, designated in 1817, with 9,396 burials on 11.379 acres including Schwarzkopf, Edward White II, and Medal of Honor recipients.
West Point, New York
West Point, New York: Hudson River Army post in Orange County, home of the U.S. Military Academy founded 1802; fortified 1778 with Kosciuszko's defenses and the Great Chain, oldest continuously occupied U.S. Army post.
West Pokot
West Pokot is a county in Kenya's northwestern Rift Valley, capital Kapenguria, homeland of the Pokot (Kalenjin) people; 9,169 km2, 621,241 residents (2019), bordering Uganda, marked by pastoralism, food poverty, and recent land reforms.
West Polesie Biosphere Reserve
West Polesie Biosphere Reserve (Rezerwat Biosfery Polesie Zachodnie), a UNESCO MAB reserve in Lublin voivodeship, Poland, established 30 April 2002 over 139,917 ha around Polesie National Park; a Polish-Ukrainian-Belarusian transboundary reserve since 2012.
West Pomeranian Voivodeship
West Pomeranian Voivodeship (Polish: województwo zachodniopomorskie) is a province in northwestern Poland bordering Germany and the Baltic Sea, with Szczecin as its capital and about 1.7 million people.
West Prussia
West Prussia (Westpreußen, Prusy Zachodnie), a Prussian province 1772–1920 created from Royal Prussia in the First Partition of Poland, lost to Poland and the Free City of Danzig under the Treaty of Versailles.
West Punjab
West Punjab: Pakistani province 1947–1955, capital Lahore, area 160,622 km², four divisions (Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi, Sargodha), created by the 1947 Radcliffe Award and dissolved in the 1955 One Unit reorganization.
West Rand District Municipality
The West Rand District Municipality is a district municipality in western Gauteng, South Africa, seated at Randfontein and governing Mogale City, Merafong City, and Rand West City.
West Reading, Pennsylvania
West Reading is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, incorporated March 18, 1907 from Spring and Cumru Townships, laid out in 1873, known for its walkable Penn Avenue Main Street and award-winning revitalization programs.
West Region
West Region (Région de l'Ouest), a first-order administrative region of Cameroon, capital Bafoussam; population 1,339,791, eight divisions, highland terrain near 1,082 m; formerly West Province.
West Riding of Yorkshire
West Riding of Yorkshire: one of three historic ridings of Yorkshire, England; administrative county County of York, West Riding 1889–1974, England's largest county, centered on Wakefield County Hall, succeeded by West and South Yorkshire.
West Riverside Energy Center
West Riverside Energy Center is a 730-megawatt combined-cycle natural gas power plant near Beloit, Wisconsin, operated by Wisconsin Power and Light and in service since May 2020.
West Roxbury
West Roxbury is a residential neighborhood in southwest Boston, Massachusetts, annexed in 1874, once home to the Brook Farm Transcendentalist community, known for single-family homes, Centre Street shops, and Millennium Park.
West Russian Volunteer Army
The Bermontians were the soldiers of the West Russian Volunteer Army (Западная добровольческая армия), a largely German force under Pavel Bermondt-Avalov that attacked Riga in October 1919.
West Seattle
West Seattle is a peninsula of southwest Seattle, Washington, first settled at Alki Point in 1851, an independent city from 1902 until annexation by Seattle on July 24, 1907 (vote 325-8), known for its bridges and distinct identity.
West Sepik Province
West Sepik Province, also called Sandaun Province, is PNG's northwesternmost province with capital Vanimo, bordering Indonesian Papua; lowest provincial HDI (0.262), four districts, Sepik River headwaters, and major Connect PNG road investment.
West Shore Pipe Line
West Shore Pipe Line is a refined petroleum products pipeline from the Chicago area through Illinois into Wisconsin, serving Milwaukee and Madison and once Green Bay.
West Siberian Plain
West Siberian Plain (Western Siberian Lowland): vast flat lowland from the Urals to the Yenisei, Arctic Ocean to Kazakh Hills; about 2.6-2.93 million km2, world's largest unbroken lowland, huge peatlands and Russia's main oil and gas basin.
West Side Story
West Side Story: 1957 Broadway musical adapting Romeo and Juliet to Manhattan gang rivalry between the Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks; music by Bernstein, lyrics by Sondheim, book by Laurents, choreographed by Robbins; landmark 1961 Oscar-winning film and 2021 Spielberg remake.
West Side Story (1961 film)
West Side Story (1961 film), directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins from the 1957 Broadway musical, adapts Romeo and Juliet to warring New York gangs; it won 10 Oscars including Best Picture and made Rita Moreno the first Latina Oscar winner.
West Side Story (2021 film)
West Side Story is a 2021 American musical film directed by Steven Spielberg, adapted from the 1957 Broadway musical, starring Rachel Zegler and Ansel Elgort.
West Slavs
West Slavs: western branch of the Slavic peoples in east-central Europe, ancestors of Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Sorbs, and extinct Polabian and Pomeranian groups; Lechitic and Czech-Slovak language groups, settled from the sixth century.
West South Central states
West South Central states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, Census Bureau Division 7 within the South region; a statistical division used since the 1910 census across federal data.