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Used in an absolute way, with a capital letter, the Orient indicates the spaces located at the east of the Europe:

• the the Middle East indicates the countries of the Asia near to the Mediterranean.
• the the Middle East indicates the countries of Occidental Asia (Arabia, Mésopotamie, Perse and the Indian Sous-continent).
• the the Far East indicates the countries of Asia bordered by the Pacific Ocean.
• the the Christian East , right lung of the Christian Occident.

Certain countries or areas had the word Orient or its Eastern adjective added to their name, to show their position in the east of the country in which they were included/understood:

• the Roman Empire of the East ;
• the the Russian Far East usually corresponds to the areas of Russia in contact with the Pacific Ocean;
• the expression Eastern Germany was useful in alternation with East Germany to indicate the German Democratic republic (GDR).
• the Eastern Timor is the State which is in the part is island of Timor.

An exoticism by association

By their different cultures, landscapes and people, the Idée of the East has for Europeans since the Moyen-âge an aspect exotic and attracting: to see on this subject the article Orientalism. This association of idea proceeds of an amalgam difficult to disentangle. The companies of tourism still make use of this aspect to promote stays in Asia.

Homonyms

• Lorient is a port French which owes its name with the trade with the the Indies.
• Several maconnic cabins use the word Orient in their name, like the Grand the East of France .

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