East (disambiguation) explained
East is a cardinal direction or compass point.
East or the East may also refer to:
Geography
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
Acronyms
Arts and literature
Film and TV
Music
Other uses
See also