East

However, on maps of planets such as Venus and Uranus which rotate retrograde, the left hand side is east.

[citation needed] To go east using a compass for navigation, one sets a bearing or azimuth of 90°.

The practice of praying towards the East is older than Christianity, but has been adopted by this religion as the Orient was thought of as containing mankind's original home.

The Orient is the East, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Eastern world, in relation to Europe.

Within an individual city within the Northern Hemisphere, the east end is typically poorer because the prevailing winds blow from the west.