East (disambiguation)

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