westernmost

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Soon the family finds itself at the mercy of poor soil, fickle weather and a heartless landlord on “the westernmost scrap of Europe.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Hungary said the law disenfranchised tens of thousands of ethnic Hungarians, who live mostly in Ukraine's westernmost region of Transcarpathia -- part of the former Kingdom of Hungary until the end of World War I.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

Indian passports were issued as far west as Aden in modern Yemen, which functioned as India's westernmost port and was administered as part of Bombay Province.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

On New Island, the westernmost island in the archipelago, scientists have uncovered possible evidence of human settlement consistent with the mobile, sea-faring culture of the Yagán.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2024

He drank what water he had left in the sealskin pouch, and steered around the westernmost headland until he came into a wide strait between it and a second island lying to the west.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin