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| | Western world |
 | | Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Western and Central Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose dominant culture is derived from European culture. |
 | | United States, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, South Korea and Japan, generally include what used to be called the "first world" or the "developed world", although the OECD includes a few countries, namely Turkey, South Korea and Mexico, that are not wealthy industrial countries. |
 | | Cold War as the approximate western boundary of those countries that were allied with the Soviet Union. |
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