The east is one of the cardinal points, also called east or east, since it is where the sun rises or appears daily. its name derives from the Latin "orĭens" which means to be born or appear, and its participle was used as an adjective of the word sun, in many ancient expressions and the elision of the word sun with said expressions, ended up associating the word with the cardinal point of the "Rising sun". Its opposite is the west, which is where the sun sets or sets daily.
In expansion, East is understood as the set of countries that are to the east, divided by the Greenwich Meridian, whose languages and cultures are traditionally different from those of the West, and this territory was called Asia, although some parts of Europe and Africa belong to the extensionOriental; subdivided into three parts that are the Middle East comprising some Asian and Eastern European countries such as Iraq, the Gaza Strip and Egypt, Cyprus, Iran, the Arab Emirates and Israel; then there is the Middle East, here are the countries located between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, countries like Afghanistan, India and Pakistan; and then the Far East, which are countries such as Korea, Japan, China, among others. In these western areas many cultures and languages of different linguistic families predominate such as Indo-European, Afro-Asian and Altaic languages, these are Arabic, Persian or Farsi and Turkish are the most widely spoken in the region. Finally, it is worth highlighting another use of the word orient, this is to name the unique shine that pearls have.
