West Country
The West Country is an unofficial, but popular, name for the South West of England. If you think you know southern England, but haven't ventured beyond the South East, the West Country will be a revelation.
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West Country
- Region with 5,520,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 400 feet (122 metres)
- Description: one of nine official regions of England, United Kingdom
- Also known as“South West”“South West England”“South West of England”
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Latitude of center
50.8112° or 50° 48′ 40″ north
Longitude of center
-3.6334° or 3° 38′ 0″ west
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“West Country” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جنوب غرب إنجلترا”
- Aragonese: “Sud-ueste d’Anglaterra”
- Aragonese: “Sudueste d’Anglaterra”
- Armenian: “Հարավարևմտյան Անգլիա”
- Asturian: “Suroeste d’Inglaterra”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənub-Qərbi İngiltərə”
- Basque: “Hego-mendebaldeko Ingalaterra”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёва-Заходняя Ангельшчына”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёва-Заходняя Англія”
- Bengali: “দক্ষিণ পশ্চিম ইংল্যান্ড”
- Breton: “Mervent Bro-Saoz”
- Bulgarian: “Югозападна Англия”
- Catalan: “Sud-oest d’Anglaterra”
- Central Kurdish: “باشووری ڕۆژاوای ئینگلتەرا”
- Chinese: “西南英格兰”
- Chinese: “西南英格蘭”
- Cornish: “Rannvro Soth West”
- Corsican: “Suduveste di l’Inghilterra”
- Croatian: “Jugozapadna Engleska”
- Croatian: “South West England”
- Czech: “Jihozápadní Anglie”
- Danish: “South West England”
- Dutch: “South West England”
- Dutch: “West Country”
- Dutch: “Zuidwest-Engeland”
- Esperanto: “Sud-okcidenta Anglio”
- Estonian: “Edela-Inglismaa”
- Finnish: “Lounais-Englanti”
- French: “Angleterre du Sud-Ouest”
- French: “Sud-Ouest de l’Angleterre”
- Galician: “Suroeste de Inglaterra”
- German: “South West England”
- German: “Südwestengland”
- Greek: “Νοτιοδυτική Αγγλία”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sî-nàm England”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sî-nàm Yîn-kak-làn”
- Hebrew: “דרום-מערב אנגליה”
- Hungarian: “Délnyugat-Anglia”
- Icelandic: “Suðvestur-England”
- Ido: “South West England”
- Indonesian: “Inggris Barat Daya”
- Indonesian: “South West England”
- Irish: “Iardheisceart Shasana”
- Italian: “Sud Ovest dell’Inghilterra”
- Italian: “Sud Ovest”
- Japanese: “サウス・ウェスト・イングランド”
- Japanese: “南西イングランド”
- Korean: “사우스웨스트잉글랜드”
- Kurdish: “Înglistana Başûr-Rojava”
- Latvian: “Dienvidrietumanglija”
- Lithuanian: “Pietvakarių Anglija”
- Macedonian: “Југозападна Англија”
- Maltese: “Lbiċ tal-Ingilterra”
- Marathi: “नैऋत्य इंग्लंड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Se-lâm Eng-lân”
- Mirandese: “Sudoeste de la Anglaterra”
- Northern Frisian: “Süüd Waast Ingelun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sørvest-England”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sørvest-England”
- Norwegian: “Sørvest-England”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Anglatèrra del sud-oèst”
- Persian: “جنوب غربی انگلستان”
- Polish: “Południowo-zachodnia Anglia”
- Polish: “South West England”
- Portuguese: “South West England”
- Portuguese: “Sudoeste da Inglaterra”
- Quechua: “Urin kunti Inlatirra suyu”
- Romanian: “South West England”
- Russian: “Юго-Западная Англия”
- Scots: “Sooth Wast Ingland”
- Scots: “Sooth Wast o Ingland”
- Serbian: “Југозападна Енглеска”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jugozapadna Engleska”
- Sindhi: “ڏکڻ اولهه انگلينڊ”
- Slovak: “South West England”
- Slovenian: “Jugozahodna Anglija”
- Spanish: “Región del Sudoeste de Inglaterra”
- Spanish: “Sudoeste de Inglaterra”
- Swahili: “Uingereza Kusini-Magharibi”
- Swedish: “Sydvästra England”
- Swedish: “West Country”
- Tajik: “Англияи Ҷанубу Ғарбӣ”
- Tatar: “Көньяк-Көнбатыш Англия”
- Thai: “เซาท์เวสต์อิงแลนด์”
- Turkish: “Güney Batı İngiltere”
- Ukrainian: “Південно-Західна Англія”
- Urdu: “جنوب مغربی انگلستان”
- Vietnamese: “South West England”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Nam Anh”
- Vlaams: “South West England”
- Welsh: “De-orllewin Lloegr”
- Western Frisian: “Súdwest-Ingelân”
- Wu Chinese: “西南英格兰”
- Yiddish: “דרום-מערב ענגלאנד”
- Yue Chinese: “西南英倫”
- Yue Chinese: “西南英格蘭”
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