West Coast
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On Thursday, the North Korean leader, clad in his signature black leather jacket, inspected his country’s first nuclear-capable warship as it navigated off North Korea’s west coast.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
The vessel had been anchored near Cape Verde, off Africa's west coast, before it set off towards the Canary Islands on Wednesday.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Darbon said last year that he "would love" to return to the Ayrshire course on the west coast of Scotland and that a feasibility study had been commissioned.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
The East-West Pipeline in Saudi Arabia takes oil from fields in the east of the kingdom to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, which is on the kingdom’s west coast.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
Why didn’t Chinese ships cross the Pacific to colonize the Americas’ west coast?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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