I suppose it's a matter of perception and where one lives on this globe. Near East was the former term for the Middle East. The Middle East and the (Far) East seem culturally unrelated, as a broad generalisation. How about East Anglia?!
Given my OP specified east of the Americas and Europe, I thought it's obvious.
Northing seems good enough these days. Must all be nitpicked.
I think people here know what I mean.
Abrahamic religions are from the ME.
Dharmic religions are from India, the East.
The Dao and Confucianism are all Far Eastern.
And the West has natively.... what...?
Where are our large scale institutional religions? our ancient philosophies? Sure, Greece had some, what about the Gauls? The Slavs?