Westland Explained

Westland or Westlands may refer to:

Places

• Westlands, Nairobi, an affluent neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi, Kenya
• Westlands, Staffordshire, a suburban area and ward in Newcastle-under-Lyme
• Westland, a peninsula of the Shetland Mainland near Vaila, Scotland

Netherlands

• • Westland (municipality), Netherlands Westland (region), Netherlands

New Zealand

• Westland District, a political subdivision on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island
• Westland Tai Poutini National Park, a national park
  • Informally, the name often used for the entire West Coast region, of which the Westland District is a part
  • Westland (New Zealand electorate) a former parliamentary electorate in the above area
  • Westland Province, a province of New Zealand from 1873–76

United States

• Westland, Indiana
• Westland, Putnam County, Indiana
• Westland, Michigan
• Westland, Oregon

see McKay Reservoir

• Westland, Pennsylvania
• Westland, Virginia
• Westland Mall (Hialeah), a shopping mall in Hialeah, Florida
• Westland Mansion, the retirement home of U.S. president Grover Cleveland
• Westland Middle School, in Bethesda, Maryland

Aircraft

• Westland Aircraft, a British aircraft manufacturer, which merged and became:
  • Westland Helicopters, a British helicopter manufacturer, in 1961
  • AgustaWestland, a British/Italian helicopter manufacturer, following a further merger in 2000
  • Leonardo S.p.A., an Italian helicopter manufacturer, following a further merger in 2016
• Westland affair, a 1986 British political crisis stemming from the government's ownership of Westland Aircraft

Other

• Westland (Nazi propaganda), the planned Nazi German name for the occupied Netherlands, or the unit of Dutch SS soldiers in Russia
• Westland School (disambiguation)
• The Westland, a Western Australian named train service
• The Westland (periodical), an Australian railway magazine published by Rail Heritage WA
• Westland Books

See also

• West Country
• Vestlandet or Western Norway