Orient (disambiguation)

The Orient is usually a historic term for the Eastern world (as contrasted with the Occident).

Orient or Oriental may also refer to:

History

 * Ancient Orient, designation for the Ancient Near East
 * Hellenistic Orient, designation for the Hellenistic Near East
 * Roman Orient (disambiguation), designation for eastern regions of the Roman Empire, in particular:
 * Diocese of the Orient, an administrative diocese in eastern parts of the Roman Empire
 * Prefecture of the Orient, a praetorian prefecture in eastern parts of the Roman Empire
 * Persian Orient, designation for territorial scope of several successive Persian Empires
 * Ottoman Orient, designation for regions of the Ottoman Empire in the Near East

Places

 * Orient, Queensland, Australia
 * Oriente (province), a former province of Cuba
 * L'Orient, a town in Brittany, France
 * Oriental (municipality), Puebla, Mexico
 * Oriental (Morocco)
 * Negros Oriental, a province of the Philippines
 * L'Orient, Switzerland

United States

 * Orient, Illinois
 * Orient, Iowa
 * Orient, Maine
 * Orient, New York
 * Orient Beach State Park
 * Orient Point, New York
 * Oriental, North Carolina
 * Orient, Ohio
 * Orient, Oregon
 * Orient, South Dakota
 * Orient, Texas
 * Orient, Washington
 * Orient Heights, a section of East Boston, Massachusetts
 * Orient Heights (MBTA station), a transit station
 * Orient Township, Michigan

Arts and entertainment

 * Orient (1924 film) (German title: Orient - Die Tochter der Wüste), a German silent film
 * Orient (1928 film) (German title: Frauenraub in Marokko), a German silent film
 * Orient (novel), a 2015 novel by Christopher Bollen
 * Orientalism (book), a 1978 book by Edward W. Said
 * Orient (manga), by Shinobu Ohtaka
 * Orient: A Hero's Heritage, a computer role-playing game
 * Henry Orient, a fictional character in the novel and film The World of Henry Orient
 * Oriental (Albéniz), a composition by Isaac Albéniz
 * Oriental music (disambiguation)

Airlines

 * Air Orient, a former French airline
 * Filipinas Orient Airways, a former Philippines airline
 * Orient Airways (1946–1955), a former airline based in India
 * Orient Eagle Airways, a former Kazakh airline
 * Orient Thai Airlines, a former Thai airline

Banking

 * China Orient Asset Management
 * M Oriental Bank, formerly Oriental Commercial Bank Limited, a commercial bank in Kenya
 * OFG Bancorp, or Oriental Bank, a financial holding company in San Juan, Puerto Rico
 * Oriental Bank which merged with Consolidated National Bank of New York in 1909 to form National Reserve Bank
 * Oriental Bank Corporation, a British imperial bank founded in India in 1842
 * Oriental Bank of Commerce, a former Indian public sector bank
 * Oriental Bank PLC, or Oriental Bank, a commercial bank founded in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2021

Shipping

 * Orient Lines, a cruise line in operation 1993–2008
 * Orient Overseas Container Line, a Hong Kong-based container shipping company
 * Orient Steam Navigation Company (the "Orient Line"), a former British shipping company

Other Businesses

 * Orient Bikes, a Greek bicycle manufacturer
 * Orient Insurance, a major insurance company in Dubai, U.A.E. owned by Al-Futtaim Group
 * Orient Paper Mills, located in India
 * Orient Watch, a Japanese watch company
 * South Orient Railroad a railroad line in West Texas

Masonic organizations

 * Grand Orient de France
 * Grand Orient of Switzerland
 * Grande Oriente do Brasil
 * Grand Orient du Congo
 * Grand Orient of Belgium
 * Grand Orient of Italy
 * Grand Orient of Luxembourg
 * Grand Orient of the Netherlands

Ships

 * Oriental, a sailing ship chartered by the New Zealand Company in 1839
 * French ship Orient, several ships
 * M/V Orient Queen, a Lebanese-owned cruise ship
 * Orient (sternwheeler), a steamboat in Oregon in the late 1800s
 * Orient (clipper ship), which traded between England and Adelaide from 1857 to 1877

Sports

 * Leyton Orient F.C., an English football club, often known just as "Orient"
 * FC Lorient, a French football club, known as Lorient

Other uses

 * Orient (automobile), an early American automobile
 * The Orient (newspaper), see Confiscation of Armenian properties in Turkey
 * Orient Hospital, a former Lebanese hospital
 * Orient House, headquarters of the PLO in East Jerusalem in the 1980s and '90s
 * El Oriental (born 1972), Mexican freestyle wrestler
 * Oriental (cat) or Oriental Shorthair, a breed of domestic cat
 * Oriental College, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
 * Oriental tobacco
 * Oriental University, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
 * Mongoloid, the "Oriental" race
 * The Bowdoin Orient, a student newspaper at Bowdoin College in the U.S. state of Maine
 * An alternative name for the natives of the República Oriental del Uruguay