Orient (disambiguation)
# Orient (disambiguation)

The Orient is usually a historic term for the Eastern world (as contrasted with the Occident).

Orient or Oriental may also refer to:

## History

* Ancient Orient, designation for the Ancient Near East
* Hellenistic Orient, designation for the Hellenistic Near East
* Roman Orient (disambiguation), designation for eastern regions of the Roman Empire, in particular:
   * Diocese of the Orient, an administrative diocese in eastern parts of the Roman Empire
   * Prefecture of the Orient, a praetorian prefecture in eastern parts of the Roman Empire
* Persian Orient, designation for territorial scope of several successive Persian Empires
* Ottoman Orient, designation for regions of the Ottoman Empire in the Near East

## Places

* Orient, Queensland, Australia
* Oriente (province), a former province of Cuba
* L'Orient, a town in Brittany, France
* Oriental (municipality), Puebla, Mexico
* Oriental (Morocco)
* Negros Oriental, a province of the Philippines
* L'Orient, Switzerland

### United States

* Orient, Illinois
* Orient, Iowa
* Orient, Maine
* Orient, New York
   * Orient Beach State Park
   * Orient Point, New York
* Oriental, North Carolina
* Orient, Ohio
* Orient, Oregon
* Orient, South Dakota
* Orient, Texas
* Orient, Washington
* Orient Heights, a section of East Boston, Massachusetts
   * Orient Heights (MBTA station), a transit station
* Orient Township, Michigan

## Arts and entertainment

* Orient (1924 film) (German title: Orient - Die Tochter der Wüste), a German silent film
* Orient (1928 film) (German title: Frauenraub in Marokko), a German silent film
* Orient (novel), a 2015 novel by Christopher Bollen
* Orientalism (book), a 1978 book by Edward W. Said
* Orient (manga), by Shinobu Ohtaka
* Orient: A Hero's Heritage, a computer role-playing game
* Henry Orient, a fictional character in the novel and film The World of Henry Orient
* Oriental (Albéniz), a composition by Isaac Albéniz
* Oriental music (disambiguation)

## Business

### Airlines

* Air Orient, a former French airline
* Filipinas Orient Airways, a former Philippines airline
* Orient Airways (1946–1955), a former airline based in India
* Orient Eagle Airways, a former Kazakh airline
* Orient Thai Airlines, a former Thai airline

### Banking

* China Orient Asset Management
* M Oriental Bank, formerly Oriental Commercial Bank Limited, a commercial bank in Kenya
* OFG Bancorp, or Oriental Bank, a financial holding company in San Juan, Puerto Rico
* Oriental Bank which merged with Consolidated National Bank of New York in 1909 to form National Reserve Bank
* Oriental Bank Corporation, a British imperial bank founded in India in 1842
* Oriental Bank of Commerce, a former Indian public sector bank
* Oriental Bank PLC, or Oriental Bank, a commercial bank founded in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2021

### Shipping

* Orient Lines, a cruise line in operation 1993–2008
* Orient Overseas Container Line, a Hong Kong-based container shipping company
* Orient Steam Navigation Company (the "Orient Line"), a former British shipping company

### Other Businesses

* Orient Bikes, a Greek bicycle manufacturer
* Orient Insurance, a major insurance company in Dubai, U.A.E. owned by Al-Futtaim Group
* Orient Paper Mills, located in India
* Orient Watch, a Japanese watch company
* South Orient Railroad a railroad line in West Texas

## Masonic organizations

* Grand Orient de France
* Grand Orient of Switzerland
* Grande Oriente do Brasil
* Grand Orient du Congo
* Grand Orient of Belgium
* Grand Orient of Italy
* Grand Orient of Luxembourg
* Grand Orient of the Netherlands

## Ships

* Oriental, a sailing ship chartered by the New Zealand Company in 1839
* French ship Orient, several ships
* M/V Orient Queen, a Lebanese-owned cruise ship
* Orient (sternwheeler), a steamboat in Oregon in the late 1800s
* Orient (clipper ship), which traded between England and Adelaide from 1857 to 1877

## Sports

* Leyton Orient F.C., an English football club, often known just as "Orient"
* FC Lorient, a French football club, known as Lorient

## Other uses

* Orient (automobile), an early American automobile
* The Orient (newspaper), see Confiscation of Armenian properties in Turkey
* Orient Hospital, a former Lebanese hospital
* Orient House, headquarters of the PLO in East Jerusalem in the 1980s and '90s
* El Oriental (born 1972), Mexican freestyle wrestler
* Oriental (cat) or Oriental Shorthair, a breed of domestic cat
* Oriental College, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
* Oriental tobacco
* Oriental University, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
* Mongoloid, the "Oriental" race
* The Bowdoin Orient, a student newspaper at Bowdoin College in the U.S. state of Maine
* An alternative name for the natives of the República Oriental del Uruguay
