- This article refers to the cardinal direction; for other uses see West (disambiguation).
West is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.
West is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of east and at right angles to north and south.
By convention, the left side of a map is west.
To go west using a compass for navigation, set a bearing or azimuth of 270°.
West is the direction towards which the sun sets at the equinox, and therefore the direction opposite that of the Earth's rotation.
Moving continuously west is following a circle of latitude, which, except in the case of the equator, is not a great circle.
The etymology of West can be traced back to the Old High German word westar, and perhaps to the Latin word vesper, meaning "evening", possibly derived from the Greek Hesperos.
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