West-Griekwaland (Afrikaans: Griekwaland-Wes, Engels: Griqualand West) is een historische streek in Zuid-Afrika dat vanaf het begin van de 19e eeuw bewoond werd door de Griekwa.Van 30 juli tot 13 december 1870 gold dit gebied als onafhankelijke republiek voor diamantmijnwerkers, ook bekend als de Republiek Klipdrift.Daarna was West-Griekwaland een aparte Britse kolonie …

Western Greece Region (Greek: Περιφέρεια Δυτικής Ελλάδας, romanized: Periféria Dhitikís Elládhas, [periˈferia ðitiˈkis eˈlaðas]) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.It comprises the western part of continental Greece and the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It occupies an area of 11,336 km 2 (4,377 sq mi) and its population is ...

West Greenlandic (Danish: vestgrønlandsk), also known as Kalaallisut, is the primary language of Greenland and constitutes the Greenlandic language, spoken by the vast majority of the inhabitants of Greenland, as well as by thousands of Greenlandic Inuit in Denmark proper (in total, approximately 50,000 people). It was historically spoken in the southwestern part of Greenland, …

Griqualand West is an area of central South Africa with an area of 40,000 km 2 that now forms part of the Northern Cape Province.It was inhabited by the Griqua people – a semi-nomadic, Afrikaans-speaking nation of mixed-race origin, who established several states outside the expanding frontier of the Cape Colony.It was also inhabited by the pre-existing Tswana and …

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Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα, romanized: Elláda, ), officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa.Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast.

Etymology []. The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (ouest in French, oest in Catalan, ovest in Italian, oeste in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root *wes reduced from *wes-pero 'evening, night', …

West Bengal (/ b ɛ ŋ ˈ ɡ ɔː l /, Bengali: Poshchim Bongo, pronounced [ˈpoʃtʃim ˈbɔŋɡo] (), abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern region of India along the Bay of Bengal.With over 91 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous state and the thirteenth-largest state by area in India. Covering an area of 88,752 km 2 (34,267 sq mi), it is also the eighth-most populous country ...

West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa.The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The population of West …