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
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, a nuclear fusion experiment facility in China