Oeste

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Map showing the location of the Oeste subregion

Façade of the headquarters of the Associação de Municípios do Oeste, showing the names of the member municipalities.

Oeste, (Portuguese for "West") is a NUTS 3 sub-region (Portuguese: sub-região) of the NUTS 2 region of Portugal named Lisboa e Vale do Tejo. The sub-region is coterminous with the Urban Community (comunidade urbana, or ComUrb) of the same name. The sub-region has an area of 2,214.8 km² (2003 updated statistics) and a population of 353,050 (2005 statistics).

The twelve municipalities of the sub-region are:

As of 2003, the twelve municipalities contain a total of 121 parishes. The largest cities are Caldas da Rainha (30,000), Torres Vedras (25,000) and Peniche (16,000). It is a region famous for its fruits and vegetables production, namely the famous pêra rocha variety.

Rio Maior is in the Lezíria do Tejo sub-region, not Oeste, but is a member of the Associação de Municípios do Oeste (Association of Municipalities of the West).