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West Star Aviation
West Star Aviation is an American maintenance, repair, and overhaul provider for business aviation, operating six full-service US facilities and owned by Greenbriar Equity Group since 2025.
West Sulawesi
West Sulawesi (Sulawesi Barat, Sulbar), an Indonesian province on western Sulawesi island, capital Mamuju, created 5 October 2004 from South Sulawesi; six regencies, 1.55 million people, agriculture-led economy growing 5.36% in 2025.
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in South East England with seven districts, a 70-member county council led by a Liberal Democrat alliance, about 915,000 residents, a £27 billion economy, and pending unitary reorganisation.
West Texas
West Texas is a loosely defined, arid region of western Texas, encompassing the High Plains, the Permian Basin, and the Trans-Pecos, with an economy dominated by oil and gas.
West Texas Gulf
West Texas Gulf (FEOW ecoregion 139) is a freshwater ecoregion of southern Texas defined by the San Antonio and Nueces river watersheds, with karst Edwards Plateau headwaters, few endemic fishes, and Gulf of Mexico drainages.
West Texas Intermediate
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is a light, sweet US crude oil grade serving as the benchmark price for North American crude, set through NYMEX futures delivered at Cushing, Oklahoma.
West Tuna Oil and Gas Field
West Tuna is an oil and gas field in the Gippsland Basin of Bass Strait, off Victoria, Australia, now producing natural gas from the West Tuna platform.
West Ukrainian People's Republic (Західноукраїнська Народна Республіка)
The West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR, ЗУНР) was a Ukrainian state proclaimed 1-13 November 1918 on former Austro-Hungarian lands (Eastern Galicia, Bukovina, Transcarpathia), unified with the UNR by the Act Zluky of 22 January 1919, and lost to Poland by July 1919.
West Valley City
West Valley City, Utah: the state's second-largest city, incorporated July 1, 1980 from Granger, Hunter, and Redwood; 140,230 residents in 2020; hosted 2002 Olympic hockey at the Maverik Center.
West Valley Demonstration Project
The West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) is a Department of Energy cleanup at the site of America's only commercial spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, in West Valley, New York.
West Valley High School (Alaska)
West Valley High School is a public four-year high school in Fairbanks, Alaska, opened in 1975 to serve the western half of the city, with about 800 students.
West Village
West Village: western Greenwich Village, Manhattan, with a pre-1811 off-grid street grid, 1969 historic district, Stonewall National Monument, gentrified upscale housing market, and Meatpacking District retail at its north end.
West Virginia
West Virginia, the Mountain State, a U.S. state admitted June 20, 1863 as the 35th state after separating from Virginia; known for Appalachian terrain, coal production, and a 2025 population of about 1.77 million.
West Virginia Division of Highways
The West Virginia Division of Highways is the state agency responsible for building and maintaining nearly all public roads in West Virginia, headquartered in Charleston.
West Virginia folklore
West Virginia folklore: oral tradition, balladry, ghostlore, and folk magic of the Mountain State, documented by the 1915 Folklore Society, Cox's Folk-Songs of the South, Musick's ghost-tale collections, and WVU archives.
West Virginia Mountaineers football
West Virginia Mountaineers football is the college football program of West Virginia University in Morgantown, which began play in 1891 and competes in the Big 12 Conference.
West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball
West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball: WVU's NCAA Division I program in the Big 12 at Hope Coliseum. Known for Bob Huggins' "Press Virginia" full-court pressure; now coached by Ross Hodge, 24th head coach since March 2025.
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943), also called the Flag Salute Cases, held 6-3 that public schools cannot compel students to salute the flag or recite the Pledge of Allegiance, overruling Minersville School District v. Gobitis.
West Virginia state parks
West Virginia state parks: a DNR-run system of 36 parks, nine state forests, and rail trails begun in 1925 at Watoga, with 10 lodge parks, free day-use admission, and nearly 10 million annual visitors.
West Virginia University
West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant university founded in 1867 in Morgantown, West Virginia, renamed from the Agricultural College of West Virginia in 1868. Distinguished by its R1 research classification, its multi-campus system (WVU Tech, Potomac State, Health Sciences divisions), and its 2023 budget crisis that cut 28 majors and 143 faculty positions.
West Virginia v. EPA
West Virginia v. EPA is a 2022 Supreme Court decision, decided 6-3, holding that the EPA lacked authority to cap power plant emissions through generation shifting.
West Weeks
West Weeks, Indianapolis Colts linebacker #47, LSU college football player who began at Virginia, brother of Whit and Zach Weeks, signed as 2026 undrafted free agent, on Colts practice squad.
West Wellaga Zone
West Wellaga (West Wellega, Wallagga Lixaa) Zone, a zone of Oromia Region, western Ethiopia; capital Ghimbi/Gimbi; forest coffee and maize producer, gold and platinum deposits, 2007 population 1,350,415.
West White Rose
West White Rose is an offshore oil development in the White Rose field on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and Labrador, operated by Cenovus Energy.
West Wind (wind farm)
West Wind is a wind farm of 62 turbines on the Mākara and Terawhiti hills west of Wellington, New Zealand, owned by Meridian Energy and fully operational since October 2009.
West Wing
The West Wing is the White House's western office building, begun as a temporary 1902 structure under Theodore Roosevelt, given the Oval Office by Taft in 1909, rebuilt after the 1929 fire and by FDR in 1934.
West Wycombe Park
West Wycombe Park is a Grade I registered 18th-century landscape park and Palladian villa in Buckinghamshire, created by Sir Francis Dashwood between 1735 and 1781, with temples by Nicholas Revett, a dammed River Wye lake, and National Trust ownership since 1943.
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in northern England with five districts (Leeds, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield), about 2.4 million people, a £66 billion economy, and a directly elected mayor under a 2020 devolution deal.
West-Eastern Divan
West-Eastern Divan (West-östlicher Divan) is Goethe's collection of lyric poetry, written 1814 to 1819, that answers the Persian poet Hafez in German and is considered his great late work.
West-Vikna Archipelago
West-Vikna Archipelago (Vest-Vikna), Ramsar Site no. 2165 in Nærøysund, Trøndelag, Norway; 13,592 ha designated 27 May 2013; ten protected localities with seabird colonies, seals, and otters.