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

Western Europe faced another day of record-breaking temperatures Tuesday as a heatwave pushed the mercury well above normal levels for May.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

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

After the Revolution, slow communications seemed like a threat to cohesion in the new nation—which was four times the size of France, the largest country in Western Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 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

Joseph Stalin, the Soviet premier, called desperately for the Americans and British to launch an invasion of German-held Western Europe.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin