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[[Image:Compass Rose English East.svg|thumb|250px|right|A [[compass rose]] <!-- Highlighting of east is nearly imperceptable -->]]
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'''East''' is a [[Direction (geometry, geography)|direction]] in [[geography]]. It is one of the four [[cardinal direction]]s or [[compass]] points, opposite of [[west]] and at [[right angle]]s to [[north]] and [[south]]. East is the direction toward which the [[Earth]] rotates about its [[Axis of rotation|axis]], and therefore the general direction from which the [[Sun]] appears to rise.
The etymology of ''east'' is from a [[Proto-Indo-European language]] word for [[dawn]], ''[[Hausos|*hausos]]''. ''Cf.'' [[Latin]] ''aurora'' and [[Greek language|Greek]] ''eōs''. ''[[Eostre]]'', a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn and the cardinal point.
By [[Norm (sociology)|convention]], an ordinary terrestrial [[map]] is oriented so the right side is east. This convention dates from the [[Renaissance]]. Many [[medieval]] maps were oriented with [[the Orient]] (the East) east at the top, which is the source of the verb ''[[Wiktionary:orient|orient]].''
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[[Category:Orientation]]
[[als:Osten]]
[[ar:شرق]]
[[az:Şərq]]
[[bs:Istok (strana svijeta)]]
[[br:Reter]]
[[bg:Изток]]
[[ca:Est]]
[[cs:Východ]]
[[co:Estu]]
[[de:Osten]]
[[et:Ida]]
[[el:Ανατολή]]
[[es:Este]]
[[eo:Oriento]]
[[eu:Ekialde (geografikoa)]]
[[fa:خاور]]
[[fr:Est]]
[[gl:Leste]]
[[zh-classical:東]]
[[ko:동쪽]]
[[id:Timur]]
[[is:Austur]]
[[it:Est]]
[[he:מזרח]]
[[ku:Rojhilat]]
[[lt:Rytai]]
[[ln:Monyɛlɛ]]
[[lmo:Est]]
[[nl:Oost]]
[[ne:पूर्व]]
[[ja:東]]
[[no:Øst]]
[[nn:Aust]]
[[nrm:Êt]]
[[oc:Èst]]
[[pl:Wschód]]
[[pt:Leste]]
[[ro:Est]]
[[qu:Anti]]
[[ru:Восток]]
[[simple:East]]
[[sk:Východ (svetová strana)]]
[[cu:Въстокъ]]
[[sl:Vzhod]]
[[sr:Исток]]
[[sh:Istok]]
[[fi:Itä]]
[[sv:Öster]]
[[ta:கிழக்கு]]
[[th:ทิศตะวันออก]]
[[vi:Hướng Đông]]
[[tr:Doğu]]
[[uk:Схід]]
[[vec:Est]]
[[wa:Levant (costé del Daegne)]]
[[yi:מיזרח]]
[[zh-yue:東]]
[[bat-smg:Rītā]]
[[zh:東]]