Oeste, (Portuguese for "West") is a NUTS 3 sub-region (Portuguese: sub-região) of the NUTS 2 region of Portugal named Centro. 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).