Western Europe'''Western Europe''' is one of the regions of Europe.
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==Countries==
*Belgium
*France
*Great Britain
*Republic of Ireland
*Luxembourg
*The Netherlands
===Other territories===
*Channel Islands (United Kingdom)
==Common region names==
Benelux:
*Belgium
*Luxembourg
*The Netherlands
==Understand==
All the countries of Western Europe are members of EU and NATO (bar Ireland). All but United Kingdom use Euro currency. All but Britain and Ireland are members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement Schengen Agreement], which removes border checkpoints.
The notion "Western Europe" is sometimes confused with the "Western Bloc", which was a Cold War name for the market economy countries of Europe as opposed to the Eastern Bloc behind the iron curtain. Hence e.g. Greece
was concerned a part of the Western Bloc, while Yugoslavia was part of the Eastern Bloc even if geography would imply the other way round.
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