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Western Amazon Piedmont
Western Amazon Piedmont (FEOW ecoregion 313): freshwater ecoregion on the eastern Andean foothills across Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, from the Apaporis to the Marañón drainages, with over 100 endemic fish species and dourada catfish spawning migrations.
Western Anatolia
Western Anatolia is a freshwater ecoregion (FEOW 429) spanning the Aegean coast of Anatolian Turkey between the Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean, known for endemic fishes.
Western and Brazilian Telegraph Company
The Western and Brazilian Telegraph Company was a British submarine telegraph company, created by John Pender in 1873, that carried Brazil's telegraphic connection with Europe until 1898.
Western Area
As one of Sierra Leone's five divisions, the Western Area contains the national capital Freetown. It is the most urbanized region, hosting nearly 1.5 million people.
Western Area Rural
Western Area Rural is a district of Sierra Leone around Freetown, capital Waterloo, governed by WARDC under the 2004 Local Government Act; 544 square kilometres, 662,156 people at the 2021 census.
Western Area Urban
Western Area Urban District, Sierra Leone, contains the capital Freetown and was the most populous district at the 2015 census (1,055,964). Its disputed 2021 census count of 606,701 contrasts with voter-register data implying about 1.2 million.
Western Armenian
Western Armenian (արևմտահայերէն, ISO 639-3 hyw) is one of the two standards of Modern Armenian, based on the Constantinople dialect, spoken by the diaspora, written in traditional orthography, and classified by UNESCO as definitely endangered.
Western Asia
Western Asia (West Asia, Southwest Asia) is the UN M49 statistical region (code 145) covering the westernmost part of Asia: 18 countries from Türkiye, the Levant, and Arabia to the South Caucasus and Cyprus.
Western astrology
Western astrology, also called the Western astrological tradition, is the practice of relating the Sun, Moon, planets, and zodiac signs to lives and events on earth, using a tropical zodiac anchored to the seasons.
Western Athletic Conference
Western Athletic Conference (WAC), US college athletic conference founded July 27, 1962 by Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming; grew to 16 teams in 1996, lost eight schools to the Mountain West in 1999, dropped FBS football in 2012, and rebranded as the United Athletic Conference on July 1, 2026.
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA): Australia's largest state, 2,527,013 km², capital Perth, founded as the Swan River Colony in 1829. Population 3.1 million (2026), resource-driven economy with $226 billion mineral and petroleum sales in 2025.
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), performing arts academy of Edith Cowan University in Perth; 300+ public performances yearly; alumni include Hugh Jackman and Tim Minchin; moved to ECU City campus in 2026.
Western Australian Government Railways
Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR), known as Westrail from 1975, built and ran Western Australia's railways from 1890 until becoming part of the Public Transport Authority in 2003.
Western Auto
Western Auto was an American auto parts retailer founded in Kansas City in 1909 by George Pepperdine, sold to Sears in 1988 and merged with Advance in 1998.
Western betrayal
Western betrayal (Czech západní zrada) is the view that Britain, France, and sometimes the US failed obligations to Czechoslovakia and Poland, centered on the 1938 Munich Agreement, the 1939 invasion of Poland, and Yalta.
Western black rhinoceros
Western black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis longipes), a West African black rhino subspecies of the Cameroonian savannah, last seen in 2006 and declared extinct by the IUCN in 2011 after poaching for horn.
Western Bloc
The Western Bloc was the US-led, NATO-anchored grouping that faced the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact (Eastern Bloc) during the Cold War, formed by the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty, backed by the Marshall Plan, and dissolved as a division when the Warsaw Pact collapsed in 1991.
Western blot
Western blot (immunoblot): antibody-based technique detecting specific proteins after SDS-PAGE separation and membrane transfer, introduced 1979 by Towbin, named by Burnette 1981; semi-quantitative, size-resolving, distinct from ELISA.
Western boundary current
A western boundary current is a strong, narrow, fast-flowing current on the western edge of an ocean basin, like the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio, key examples.
Western Bug
Western Bug (Західний Буг, Polish Bug): 772 km river rising in western Ukraine, flowing to the Narew and Vistula basin; 363 km forms the Poland-Ukraine-Belarus border, distinct from the Southern Bug.
Western Bulldogs
Western Bulldogs (formerly Footscray FC, founded 1877): Melbourne AFL club, nine VFA flags, V/AFL premierships 1954 and 2016, AFLW flag 2018, renamed Western Bulldogs in 1997, home at Mission Whitten Oval.
Western Bureau (Xisheng)
The Western Bureau (西省) was an Eastern Jin office in which a single official drafted imperial edicts, established under Emperor Xiaowu and dissolved when Liu Yu founded the Song.
Western campaigns of Adad-nirari III
The western campaigns of Adad-nirari III were Assyrian expeditions into the Levant between about 805 and 796 BC, culminating in the siege of Damascus in 796 BC.
Western Canada
Western Canada is the region west of Ontario, usually the four provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Covers definitions, 1870–1905 provincial history, resource economy, and regional identity.
Western Canada Select
Western Canada Select (WCS) is a heavy, sour crude oil blend produced in western Canada and the benchmark price for Canadian heavy crude, created in 2004 at Hardisty, Alberta.
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) is a vast wedge of sedimentary rock in western Canada and one of the world's most prolific petroleum basins.
Western Canadian Select
Western Canadian Select (WCS) is a blended heavy sour crude oil stream created in 2004 that serves as the benchmark price for Canadian heavy oil, priced at Hardisty, Alberta.
Western canon
The Western canon is the body of influential literary, philosophical, and artistic works used as a standard in Western culture. Debates over its contents began in the 1980s.
Western Cape
Western Cape: South African province on the continent's southwestern tip, capital Cape Town (legislative capital). Established 1994 from the Cape Province; over 7.4 million people; lowest provincial unemployment; wine, fishing, tourism economy.
Western capercaillie
Western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), the largest grouse, a lekking taiga and montane forest bird. Globally Least Concern but near extinction in Scotland (532 birds in 2021-22) and critically reduced in Cantabrian Spain.