The Inner German border — only east of Hamburg — separated the city from most of its hinterland and further reduced Hamburg's global trade.

The country is southeast of the Russian Far East, separated by the Sea of Okhotsk ; slightly east of Korea, separated by the Sea of Japan ; and east-northeast of China and Taiwan, separated by the East China Sea.

It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago.

The Mga River then flowed to the east, into Lake Ladoga, near the modern source of the Neva River ; the Mga then was separated from the basin of the Tosna.

Central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the Plain of Moldavia on the east by the Carpathian Mountains and separated from the Wallachian Plain on the south by the Transylvanian Alps

From west to east, the country stretches from Kaliningrad ( the exclave separated by the 1990 secession of Lithuania from the then-Soviet Union ) to Ratmanov Island ( one of the Diomede Islands ) in the Bering Strait.

The Temne had thus expanded in a wedge toward the sea at Freetown, and now separated the Bulom to the north from the Mani and other Mande speakers to the south and east.

It is separated to the east from the Italian region of Calabria through the Strait of Messina.

east of the Turks Islands and separated from them by Mouchoir Passage is the Mouchoir Bank.

On the east the town is ( currently in part ) separated from Schiedam by the A4 motorway.

The plane's engines subsequently separated in flight and fell several blocks north and east of the main wreckage site.

The Alhambra as a whole is completely walled, bordered to the north by the valley of the Darro, to the south by the al-Sabika, and to the east of the Cuesta del Rey Chico, which in turn is separated from the Albaicín and Generalife, located in the Cerro del Sol.

At the end of the republic, however, or at latest at the beginning of the imperial period, the city of Circei was no longer at the east end of the promontory, but on the east shores of the Lago di Paola ( a lagoon — now a considerable fishery — separated from the sea by a line of sandhills and connected with it by a channel of Roman date: Strabo speaks of it as a small harbor ) north of the west end of the promontory.

According to Ptolemy, these divisions were separated by a line drawn from Arrabona in the north to Servitium in the south ; later, the boundary was placed further east.

Montreux lies on the north east shore of Lake Geneva at the fork in the Roman road from Italy over the Simplon Pass, where the roads to the Roman capital of Aventicum and the road into Gaul through Besançon separated.

Gaithersburg is divided into east and west sections, separated by Interstate 270.

Known as Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River.

They are separated from the Cottian Alps in the east by the Col du Galibier and the upper Durance valley ; from the western Graian Alps ( Vanoise Massif ) in the north-east by the river Arc ; from the lower ranges Vercors Plateau and Chartreuse Mountains in the west by the rivers Drac and Isère.

To the east are – separated by Zürichberg-Adlisberg, Forch and Pfannenstiel – two minor lakes: Greifensee ( Lake Greifen ) and Pfäffikersee ( Lake Pfäffikon ).

Ithaca lies east of the northwest coast of Kephalonia, from which it is separated by the Strait of Ithaca.

; Ringló Vale: The land around the northern course of the river Ringló, separated by outliers of the White Mountains from Lamedon in the west and Lebennin in the east.

We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.

the southern United States, extending from Florida in the east to Texas in the west, still maintains its unique flavor of gracious living and historical elegance.

This agency accepted responsibility for medical services to a population ranging from 638,560 persons in 1941 to 840,503 in 1956 in the Kwango District and adjacent areas east of Leopoldville.

The Plymouth was coming at him from the east, the pickup truck from the west.

And then he heard a car coming from the east, and he felt as if he would break down and weep.

Her husband recently was appointed vice president of the university, bringing them back here from the east.

Armed with letters from embassies to ministers of countries, especially those in the near and far east, Mrs. Geraghty `` will beat the bushes for oriental talent ''.

Finalists from the county's east end failed to place.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

alt = Map of Caribbean showing seven approximately parallel westward-pointing arrows that extend from east of the Virgin Islands to Cuba.

In the summer of 1861, Davis appointed several generals to defend Confederate lines from the Mississippi River east to the Allegheny Mountains.

The Aegean Islands are found within its waters, with the following islands delimiting the sea on the south ( generally from west to east ): Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to an indefinite line running from the Gulf of Iskenderun to the Black Sea, coterminous with the Anatolian Plateau.

Stretching inland from the Aegean coastal plain, the Central Anatolian plateau occupies the area between the two zones of the folded coastal ranges in the north and south, extending east to the point where the two ranges converge.

The region varies in elevation from from west to east.

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ", comparable to the Latin terms " Levant " or " Orient " ( and words for " east " in other languages ).

The earliest historical records of Anatolia stem from the south east of the region, and are from the Mesopotamian based Akkadian Empire during the reign of Sargon of Akkad in the 24th century BC.

The Alps, one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretch approximately across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south.

The Ancient Pueblo homeland centers on the Colorado Plateau, but extends from central New Mexico on the east to southern Nevada on the west.