The Occident is usually a historic term for the Western world (as contrasted with the Orient). Occident or The Occident may also refer to: Occident (film), a 2002 Romanian film Occident (movement), a former French far-right political group The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, a 19th-century Jewish-American periodical Occident, California, former name of the community Maxwell, California, US Occident, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Rush County "Occident", a song from the album Have One on Me by Joanna Newsom See also Occidental (disambiguation)