where does the west start in the us
Western United States Since then, the frontier generally moved westward and eventually, the lands west of the Mississippi River came to be referred to as the West.[2] Though no consensus exists, even among experts, for the definition of the West as a region, the U.S. Census Bureau's definition of the 13 westernmost states includes the Rocky Mountains and the Great Basin to the West Coast, and the outlying states of Hawaii and Alaska.