East is a cardinal direction or compass point.
East or the East may also refer to:
Places Eastern world, or the East or historically the Orient, usually including Asia, the Mediterranean region and the Arab world Orient, the East in relation to Europe Eastern Bloc, communist states during the Cold War East (Cornish hundred), historic division in England East (European Parliament constituency), in Ireland East Flatbush, a residential neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, home to many residents of Caribbean descent East New York, a residential neighborhood of the easternmost region of Brooklyn, New York City East, West Virginia, United States Eastern United States, often abbreviated as simply the East, the United States east of the Mississippi River
Arts and entertainment Film and television The East (2013 film), a thriller The East (2020 film), a Dutch war film The East (TV series), a 2015 Indonesian comedy East (The Walking Dead), a TV episode Channel East, a defunct British television channel
Literature East (novel), by Edith Pattou, 2003 East (play), by Steven Berkoff, 1975
Music East!, a 1968 album by Pat Martino, and its title track "East" East (Cold Chisel album), 1980 East (Justin Rutledge album), 2016 East (EP), by Ego Likeness, 2012 "East", a song by Billy Paul from the 1971 album Going East "East", a song by Earl Sweatshirt from the 2019 EP Feet of Clay
Businesses and organizations 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 The East (Brooklyn), a black nationalism community education and arts organization
Other uses East (surname), including a list of people with the surname Easter Island Standard Time, a timezone in Chile Eastern Line (Auckland) (timetable code: EAST), New Zealand Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, a nuclear fusion experiment facility in China
See also
Eastern (disambiguation) Easts (disambiguation) East Bay, a portion of the San Francisco Bay Area East River (disambiguation) East Point (disambiguation) Est (disambiguation), French for east Este (disambiguation), Spanish for east Azuma (disambiguation), Japanese for east Higashi (disambiguation), Japanese for east Far East, the region comprising East Asia and Southeast Asia East Asia Eastern Europe East Coast of the United States Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire