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Western world

countries with an originally European shared culture
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Summary

Western world is a geographical area[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of geographical area entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25,734 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: group[3]
  • Commons category: Western culture[4]
  • Opposite of: Eastern world[5]
  • Has part(s): country[6]
  • Topic's main category: Q9649944[7]
  • Facet of: East-West dichotomy[8]
  • Different from: Western Hemisphere[9]

Why It Matters

Western world has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 102 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

country

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8h ago · Vtone · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'ceb', 'ck
    Sitelink count → 103
    National library of latvia id → 000147070
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of latvia id: 000147070"
  2. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → western-countries
    Svkkl authority id → 0341312-zapadni-zeme, h0005562-zapadni-civilizace
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: western-countries, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289971245|western countries (#289971245)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Har"
  3. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0341312-zapadni-zeme, h0005562-zapadni-civilizace
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0341312-zapadni-zeme, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259576|batch #259576]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → Western Hemisphere
    Worldcat entities id → E39PBJktrP3tYGbbTrFFFjJFKd
    Facet of → East-West dichotomy
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 13092, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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