The west is known as one of the cardinal points, which is on the side where the sun sets, also called west or west. is a word that, like many others, comes from Latin, specifically from the word "occĭdens", this is one of the four cardinal points, as mentioned above, which were replaced by names of Germanic origin, "oriens" which It is east, it was transformed into "east" which means "east"; "Septentriones" for "north" which means "north"; to "meridies" for the old English "suth" which means "south"; and finally "occidens" for "west" which means "west".
The West is also attributed to the region located in the western part. The western term is used to qualify an area of the world as "the western world", or western countries; or maybe a culture or a group of them, even a civilization when speaking of "Western civilization". Next we speak of the western hemisphere that is half of the terrestrial sphere, and that takes place in the western side of the meridian of Greenwich, or to the American continent; the word hemisphere is used in geography to call the two halves of planet earth; the dividing line that is called the equator is the one that delimits the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere, but when a meridian is used as a divider, an eastern hemisphere and a western hemisphere are acquired. And finally, the group or group of countries that, together with the United States of America, share the same social, economic and cultural system or structure is also assigned this word.
