West Country
The West Country is an unofficial, but popular, name for the South West of England. If you think you know southern England, but haven't ventured beyond the South East, the West Country will be a revelation.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Bristol
Bristol is a city in the West Country of England. Famous for its maritime history it also offers a great and diverse range of attractions, hotels, bars and events.Stonehenge
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Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monument in a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.
Plymouth
Plymouth is a city in Devon, and the largest city on England's south coast, with a population of 265,000 in 2021.Destinations
Devon
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Devon is a large county in England's West Country, bordered to the west by Cornwall and to the east by Dorset and Somerset.
Somerset
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Somerset is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a large, mostly rural county in the eastern part of the West Country of southern England.Dorset
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Dorset is a county on the south coast of England, in the West Country.
Gloucestershire
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Gloucestershire is a county in south-west England. It comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.
Isles of Scilly
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The Isles of Scilly is a small archipelago of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, 25 miles off the coast of Cornwall at the south-western tip of the United Kingdom.
West Country
- Type: Region with 5,520,000 residents
- Description: one of nine official regions of England
- Neighbors: South East England and West Midlands
- Categories: region of England and ITL 1 statistical regions of England
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
50.8112° or 50° 48' 40" northLongitude of centre
-3.6334° or 3° 38' 0" westPopulation
5,520,000Elevation
122 metres (400 feet)GeoNames ID
11591956Wikidata ID
Q48026West Country Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: جنوب غرب إنجلترا
- Aragonese: Sud-ueste d'Anglaterra
- Aragonese: Sudueste d'Anglaterra
- Armenian: Հարավարևմտյան Անգլիա
- Asturian: Suroeste d'Inglaterra
- Azerbaijani: Cənub-Qərbi İngiltərə
- Basque: Hego-mendebaldeko Ingalaterra
- Belarusian: Паўднёва-Заходняя Ангельшчына
- Belarusian: Паўднёва-Заходняя Англія
- Bengali: দক্ষিণ পশ্চিম ইংল্যান্ড
- Breton: Mervent Bro-Saoz
- Bulgarian: Югозападна Англия
- Catalan: Sud-oest d'Anglaterra
- Chinese: Se-lâm Eng-lân
- Chinese: 西南英格兰
- Chinese: 西南英格蘭
- Cornish: Rannvro Soth West
- Croatian: Jugozapadna Engleska
- Croatian: South West England
- Czech: Jihozápadní Anglie
- Danish: South West England
- Dutch: South West England
- Dutch: West Country
- English: South West England
- English: UKK
- Esperanto: Sud-okcidenta Anglio
- Estonian: Edela-Inglismaa
- Finnish: Lounais-Englanti
- French: Angleterre du Sud-Ouest
- French: Sud-Ouest de l'Angleterre
- Galician: Suroeste de Inglaterra
- German: South West England
- German: Südwestengland
- Greek: Νοτιοδυτική Αγγλία
- Hakka Chinese: Sî-nàm Yîn-kak-làn
- Hausa: Sî-nàm England
- Hebrew: דרום-מערב אנגליה
- Hungarian: South West England
- Icelandic: Suðvestur-England
- Indonesian: Inggris Barat Daya
- Indonesian: South West England
- Irish: Iardheisceart Shasana
- Italian: Sud Ovest dell'Inghilterra
- Japanese: サウス・ウェスト・イングランド
- Japanese: 南西イングランド
- Korean: 사우스웨스트잉글랜드
- Latvian: Dienvidrietumanglija
- Lithuanian: Pietvakarių Anglija
- Macedonian: Југозападна Англија
- Maltese: Lbiċ tal-Ingilterra
- Marathi: नैऋत्य इंग्लंड
- Min Nan Chinese: Se-lâm Eng-lân
- Mirandese: Sudoeste de la Anglaterra
- Northern Frisian: Süüd Waast Ingelun
- Norwegian: Sørvest-England
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sørvest-England
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sørvest-England
- Occitan (post 1500): Anglatèrra del sud-oèst
- Persian: جنوب غربی انگلستان
- Polish: Południowo-zachodnia Anglia
- Polish: South West England
- Portuguese: South West England
- Portuguese: Sudoeste da Inglaterra
- Quechua: Urin kunti Inlatirra suyu
- Romanian: South West England
- Russian: Юго-Западная Англия
- Scots: Sooth Wast Ingland
- Serbian: Југозападна Енглеска
- Serbo-Croatian: Jugozapadna Engleska
- Slovak: South West England
- Slovenian: Jugozahodna Anglija
- Spanish: Región del Sudoeste de Inglaterra
- Spanish: Sudoeste de Inglaterra
- Swahili: Uingereza Kusini-Magharibi
- Swedish: Sydvästra England
- Swedish: West Country
- Tajik: Англияи Ҷанубу Ғарбӣ
- Tatar: Көньяк-Көнбатыш Англия
- Thai: เซาท์เวสต์อิงแลนด์
- Turkish: Güney Batı İngiltere
- Ukrainian: Південно-Західна Англія
- Urdu: جنوب مغربی انگلستان
- Vietnamese: South West England
- Vlaams: South West England
- Welsh: De-orllewin Lloegr
- Western Frisian: Súdwest-Ingelân
- Wu Chinese: 西南英格兰
- Yiddish: דרום-מערב ענגלאנד
- Yue Chinese: 西南英倫
- South West
- Sud Ovest
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page West Country. Photo: Matthew Hartley, CC BY-SA 2.0.