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Western Carolina University

Western Carolina University (WCU) is a public comprehensive university in Cullowhee, North Carolina, founded in 1889 and the UNC system's westernmost campus, with over 12,000 students, NC Promise tuition of $500 per semester in-state, and six colleges.

Western Caspian Drainages

Western Caspian Drainages: a Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (FEOW) ecoregion on the western Caspian coast, covering Terek, Sulak, and nearby rivers draining into the endorheic Caspian Sea.

Oct 20, 2026

Western Caucasus

Western Caucasus (Западный Кавказ), UNESCO natural World Heritage Site (1999, criteria ix, x) in Krasnodar Region and Adygea, Russia; 298,903 ha of near-pristine Caucasus mountain forest, European bison and Persian leopard reintroduction, under Committee scrutiny over Lagonaki resort.

Western Cave Conservancy

Western Cave Conservancy (WCC), all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded 2002 in Newcastle, California, protects western US caves via preserves (Weller, Volcano, Catacombs), agency MOUs, restoration, and grants up to $2,500.

Western Chalukya Empire

Western Chalukya Empire, also Kalyani Chalukyas (ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಚಾಲುಕ್ಯ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ), a Deccan kingdom of South India, 973–1190, founded by Tailapa II after overthrowing the Rashtrakutas; peak under Vikramaditya VI; ended under Hoysala pressure.

Western Chalukyas of Kalyani

The Western Chalukyas of Kalyani (पश्चिमी चालुक्य) were a medieval Indian dynasty founded in 973 by Tailapa II, who ruled most of the Deccan from Kalyani in Karnataka until 1189.

Western Christianity

Western Christianity, also known as the Western Church, is the Latin Church, the largest part of the Catholic Church, with about 1.4 billion faithful under the bishop of Rome.

Western Chu

Western Chu (西楚) was the state founded by Xiang Yu, who proclaimed himself Hegemon-King and presided over eighteen enfeoffed kings, ruling from Pengcheng until Liu Bang's Han defeated him.

Sep 25, 2026

Western City Office (Xicheng suo)

The Western City Office (西城所) was a Northern Song agency that seized farmland, made its owners tenants, and was run by the eunuchs Yang Jian and Li Yan.

Western Coalfields

Western Coalfields Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Coal India that mines coal in Maharashtra and southwestern Madhya Pradesh from its Nagpur headquarters, established in 1975.

Western concert flute

Western concert flute, also C flute, silver flute, or Boehm flute: the standard transverse, side-blown C woodwind of orchestras and bands. Cylindrical metal Boehm-system design by Theobald Boehm, 1847; about 67 cm; non-transposing, range C4 to C7 or F7.

Western Confederacy

The Western Confederacy, also called the Northwestern Confederacy and the United Indian Nations, was a coalition of Native American tribes formed in 1785 to resist US settlement.

Western Conference (NBA)

The Western Conference is one of the two conferences of the NBA, with 15 teams in the Northwest, Pacific, and Southwest Divisions under the format adopted for the 1970-71 season.

Western Congolian swamp forests

Western Congolian swamp forests (Forêts marécageuses de l'ouest du Congo): tropical freshwater swamp forest ecoregion on the right bank of the Congo River in ROC, DRC, and CAR, part of the world's largest swamp forest complex with Raphia palm stands and carbon-rich peat.

Western conifer seed bug

Western conifer seed bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis), a leaf-footed true bug native to western North America that feeds on conifer seeds, damages seed orchards, and has invaded Europe since 1999 at about 160 km/year.

Western Corridor Recycled Water Project

The Western Corridor Recycled Water Project is a water recycling scheme in South East Queensland, Australia, treating Brisbane's and Ipswich's wastewater and supplying purified water chiefly to power stations.

Western Crude Oil Pipeline

The Western Crude Oil Pipeline (西部原油管道) is a crude oil pipeline from Ürümqi in Xinjiang to Lanzhou in Gansu, commissioned in 2007 and once China's longest crude pipeline.

Western culture

Western culture, also called Western civilization, is the cultural heritage of Europe and its settler colonies, traced to Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian roots and critiqued as a Eurocentric East–West construct.

Western Darfur

Western Darfur (West Darfur) is a state of Sudan, capital El Geneina, bordering Chad for about 700 km; Masalit homeland, site of 2021 intercommunal violence and 2023 RSF massacres killing 10,000-15,000 in El Geneina.

Western Dedicated Freight Corridor

The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) is a 1,506 km freight-only, electrified, double-track railway in India running from Dadri near Delhi to Jawaharlal Nehru Port near Mumbai, completed in 2026.

Western Depot

The Western Depot (西厂) was a Ming dynasty secret surveillance agency run by eunuchs under Wang Zhi, twice abolished and revived, and finally ended in 1510.

Western Desert

Western Desert of Egypt, also called the Egyptian Libyan Desert, the Sahara region west of the Nile covering about 681,000 km², with the Siwa, Bahariya, Farafra, Dakhla, and Kharga oases, the Great Sand Sea, and the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System.

Western Desert art

Western Desert art is a movement of contemporary Aboriginal painting that began in 1971 at Papunya in central Australia, when senior men painted traditional ceremonial designs in acrylic.

Western Desert campaign

The Western Desert campaign was a series of WWII battles in Egypt and Libya, where British forces fought Italian and German armies for control of North Africa.

Western Design

The Western Design was a 1654 military expedition sent by Oliver Cromwell's government against Spain's Caribbean empire, which failed at Hispaniola but captured Jamaica in 1655.

Western Development Strategy

The Western Development Strategy (西部大开发) is a Chinese regional development policy launched by the State Council in 1999 and 2000 to develop the country's western provinces.

Western diamondback rattlesnake

Western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox, coon-tail), a large venomous pit viper of the southwestern US and Mexico; diamond markings, black-and-white banded tail, leading US snakebite fatality source, NatureServe G5.

Western Diet

The Western diet, also called the meat-sweet diet, is a eating pattern high in meat, sugar, refined grains, and fat, typical of North America and Western Europe.

Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation, commonly known as WD, is an American data storage company founded in 1970, headquartered in San Jose, California, and a leading maker of hard disk drives.