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East is a cardinal direction or compass point.

East or the East may also refer to:

Geography

• East Bay, a portion of the San Francisco Bay Area
• East River (disambiguation)
• East Point (disambiguation)

Global context

• Eastern world, the region comprising Asia and the Middle East
• Far East, the region comprising East Asia and Southeast Asia
• Eastern Bloc, the Soviet Union and other states in the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War
• The Orient, an early-modern term for lands east of Western Europe.
• Eastern Europe, the region between the Ural Mountains(along with the Ural River), and Central Europe, although the cutoff line westward is not well defined.
• Eastern Asia, the region generally defined as comprising China, Japan, the Koreas, and Taiwan, sometimes including Southeast Asia(making the term sometimes synonymous with the " Far East", depending on the context).

National context

• East (Cornish hundred), a division of the UK country of England
• East (European Parliament constituency), a constituency in the Republic of Ireland
• East, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
• East Coast of the United States, the easternmost coast of the United States along the Atlantic Ocean
  • Eastern United States, a term often describing the U.S. states east of the Mississippi River
• Eastern Roman Empire, the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Acronyms

• Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, a nuclear fusion experiment facility in China

• European Association for Solar Telescopes, a consortium for the development of the European Solar Telescope
• East Asia School of Theology, in Singapore
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, an American medical association

• East African Standard Time (EAST) and timezone, see East Africa Time (EAT)
• Easter Island Standard Time and timezone, UTC−6:00 with UTC−5:00 at daylight saving time

Arts and literature

• East (novel), a 2003 novel by Edith Pattou
• East (play), a 1975 play by Steven Berkoff

Film and TV

• The East (2013 film), a film directed by Zal Batmanglij
• The East (2020 film), a Dutch war film
• The East (TV series), a 2015 Indonesian TV series
• East (The Walking Dead), an episode of the TV series The Walking Dead

Music

• East!, a 1968 album by jazz guitarist Pat Martino
• East (Cold Chisel album), 1980
• East (Justin Rutledge album), 2016
• East (EP), an EP by Ego Likeness
• "East", track by Pat Martino on East!
• "East", song by Billy Paul
• "East", song by Earl Sweatshirt from the EP Feet of Clay

Other uses

• East (surname), various people with the surname
• The East (Brooklyn), a black nationalist community center established in 1969

See also

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• Easts (disambiguation)
• Eastern (disambiguation)
• Est (disambiguation), French for east
• Este (disambiguation), Spanish for east
• Azuma (disambiguation), Japanese for east
• Higashi (disambiguation), Japanese for east
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• All pages with titles containing east

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