East (disambiguation)

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East may refer to:

Contents 1 Directions and Generalised locations 2 Specific Locations 2.1 Countries 2.2 Islands 2.3 States and Provinces 2.4 Cities 2.5 Districts 2.6 Waterways 3 Acronym 4 See also

[edit] Directions and Generalised locations

• East, a cardinal direction
• Eastern, a cultural explanation
• Far East, used to generalise the region including East Asia and Southeast Asia
• Eastern world, referring to the Middle East, Eastern Europe, or Asia
• Eastern bloc, referring to the communist countries during the cold war
• East Africa - the eastern part of Africa, consisting of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania
• East Asia - the eastern part of Asia, consisting of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan
• East (hundred), one of several divisions of England, UK.

[edit] Specific Locations

• East Cape - the easternmost point of the northern island of New Zealand.
• East Cape ("Cabo del Este") - a resort beach in Baja, Mexico.
• East Cape - a volcano in Aleutians, Alaska, USA.
• East Cape/"Cape Dezhnev" - a cape in Russia, northeasternmost point of Russian Far East and Asia.

[edit] Countries

• East Timor (Timor Lorosae) - a country in Asia Pacific.
• East Indies - old name for an archipelago in South East Asia. The new name of the archipelago (since 1945): Indonesia.

[edit] Islands

• East Island (Île de l'Est) - an island in Crozet Islands, Southern Indian Sea.
• East Island - an island in New Zealand.

[edit] States and Provinces

• East Province (Cameroon).
• East - a province in Rwanda.

[edit] Cities

• East Cape Girardeau - a city in Illinois, USA.
• East Lansing - a city in Michigan, USA.
• East London - a port city in South Africa.
• East Point - a city in Georgia, USA.
• East,Nevada - a city in Nevada

[edit] Districts

• East Jakarta (Jakarta Timur) - a district in Jakarta, Indonesia.
• East Mumbai - a suburb to the east of the Mumbai suburban railway, India.

[edit] Waterways

• East River, a tidal strait in New York City

[edit] Acronym

• Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), an all-superconducting non-circular section nuclear fusion experiment facility being built at the Hefei Institute of Physical Science, China.

[edit] See also

• The East
• Eastern (subnational entity), a list of all subnational entities with East or Eastern as their name