From New York City you drive west to visit the West (or the Midwest). The names of other, smaller areas are often capitalized too. Plopped in the center of New York City is Central Park, which the West Side and the East Side flank. Chicago has a South Side and London has Bloomsbury.hen the name doesn’t appear, lowercase geographical features (mountain, valley, gorge or beach, for instance). In general, you should capitalize the names of countries and languages.