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Western Europe is the western region of Europe. The region's extent varies depending on context. The concept of "the West" appeared in Europe in juxtaposition to "the East" and originally applied to the ancient Mediterranean world, the Roman Empire (both Western and Eastern), and medieval "Christendom".
The EU originated in Western Europe but has been expanding eastward since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. A majority of its members have adopted a common currency, the euro, and participate in the European single market and a customs union.
From about the year 1000 onwards, Western Europe saw the last of the barbarian invasions and became more politically organized. The Vikings had settled in Britain, Ireland, France and elsewhere, whilst Norse Christian kingdoms were developing in their Scandinavian homelands.
Western Europe is the western region of Europe. The region's extent varies depending on context. The concept of "the West" appeared in Europe in juxtaposition to "the East" and originally applied to the ancient Mediterranean world, the Roman Empire (both Western and Eastern), and medieval "Christendom".
Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia) and occupying nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area.
During the Cold War, Western Europe was a geographic and socio-political concept. It meant the democratic European countries of the First World, which are also vaguely defined. It was and still is distinguished from Eastern Europe by differences of economics, politics, and religion.
Western Europe. Groupings by compass directions are the hardest to define in Europe, since there are a few calculations of the midpoint of Europe (among other issues), and the pure geographical criteria of "east" and "west" are often confused with the political meaning these words acquired during the Cold War era.
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Western Europe, [a] Northern America, and Australasia; [b] with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America [c] also constitute the West. [2] [3] The Western world likewise is called the Occident (from Latin occidens 'setting down, sunset, west') in contrast to ...
Western Europe consists of 9 countries, and has a total population of about 196 million. The subregion is home to two of Europe’s biggest political and economic powers, France and Germany. Combined, they contain more than half of Western Europe’s population.
Western Europe — the geography, environment, history, and culture of the western region of Europe. During the 20th century Cold War, the term was also used for the non-communist countries in the Western European Union, in contrast to the Eastern Bloc.