East (disambiguation) explained

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, West Virginia, United States
Eastern United States, often abbreviated as simply the East, the United States east of the Mississippi River

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

East (surname), including a list of people with the surname
Easter Island Standard Time, a timezone in Chile
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, a nuclear fusion experiment facility in China