Western Europe

Cultural  

1. Those nations in Europe that were not part of the Eastern Bloc, or more specifically, those nations allied with the United States in NATO (except Turkey). Neutral or nonaligned nations such as Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, and Spain, though western European in terms of geography, are not usually meant when the term “Western Europe” is used as the opposite for terms such as “Eastern Europe,” “the Eastern Bloc,” or “communist Europe.”

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Example Sentences

It’s a large, highly fragmented industry with 20,000 distributors between here and Western Europe, which gives you room to consolidate and scale.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

“Russia and Western Europe converged” under the empress, at least for a short while.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Another contestant, from Western Europe, who was 16 at the time, remembers how Brunel's behaviour struck her as odd.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

For the foreseeable future, he plans to direct his customers towards other destinations further west, such as the Mediterranean, Western Europe and the Caribbean.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

The Troper is not unique, though: between about 650 and 1000, an ad hoc system of small, above-the-text markings became more common in chant books all over Western Europe.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall