westernmost
adjective
west·ern·most
ˈwe-stərn-ˌmōst 
: furthest to the west
… wild species in the westernmost Amazon of Colombia and Ecuador.—
Richard Evans Schultes
Richard Evans SchultesThe view in the photographs is near the western boundary of the westernmost county in Kansas …—Thomas & Geraldine Vale
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Catch the restaurant on a slow day, and you may be invited to cook some of the fish yourself while overlooking the cerulean waters rushing across the westernmost point of the African continent.
—Kayla Stewart, Saveur, 30 Oct. 2024
The westernmost road in all of Canada dead-ends in Tofino, a small town at the tip of a peninsula on Vancouver Island’s rugged, mostly uninhabited west coast.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
Shaped by volcanoes, battered by storms, and conditioned by vast distances, the archipelago contains the westernmost point in the European Union and also some of its poorest communities.
—Philip Sherburne, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
Russia could be provoked into placing more short-range missiles in Kaliningrad—the noncontiguous, westernmost part of Russia that is sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.
—Dmitri Trenin, Foreign Affairs, 28 Dec. 2021
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Kayla Stewart, Saveur, 30 Oct. 2024
The westernmost road in all of Canada dead-ends in Tofino, a small town at the tip of a peninsula on Vancouver Island’s rugged, mostly uninhabited west coast.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
Shaped by volcanoes, battered by storms, and conditioned by vast distances, the archipelago contains the westernmost point in the European Union and also some of its poorest communities.
—Philip Sherburne, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
Russia could be provoked into placing more short-range missiles in Kaliningrad—the noncontiguous, westernmost part of Russia that is sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.
—Dmitri Trenin, Foreign Affairs, 28 Dec. 2021
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“Westernmost.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/westernmost. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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