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East Asia
East Asia: eastern subregion of Asia, also called Eastern Asia in the UN M49 scheme, covering China, Japan, Mongolia, the Koreas, and Taiwan; monsoon climate, rapid urbanization, and 4–5% regional growth.
East Asia Summit
East Asia Summit (EAS), annual leaders-led forum of 19 Indo-Pacific countries chaired by the ASEAN Chair; founded 2005 in Kuala Lumpur with 16 members, expanded when the US and Russia joined in 2011; covers strategic, political, and economic cooperation.
East Asian age reckoning
East Asian age reckoning, also known as Korean age reckoning, counts a person as 1 year old at birth, adding a year at each New Year.
East Asian Department
East Asian Department (აღმოსავლეთ აზიის განყოფილება), the largest floristic section of the Batumi Botanical Garden, Georgia: 6.05 ha, 40% of the living collection, 1913 Japanese introductions, Tertiary relicts, and a Japanese garden.
East Asian monsoon
The East Asian monsoon is the seasonally reversing wind system over eastern China, Korea, Japan, and the adjacent western North Pacific, bringing wet summers and cold, dry winters.
East Asian rainy season
The East Asian rainy season, called Meiyu in China, Baiu in Japan, and Changma in Korea, is a quasi-stationary frontal system bringing heavy rain in June and July.
East Asian Traditional Medicine
East Asian traditional medicine covers TCM, TKM, and Japanese Kampo/Oriental medicine, sharing a Chinese origin about 3,000 years ago; uses acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, and herbs, with differing national regulation, insurance, and evidence bases.
East Asian winter monsoon
The East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) drives cold, dry air from the Siberian high toward the western Pacific, bringing cold surges, snowfall, and freezing rain to East Asia.
East Atlantic pattern
The East Atlantic pattern is a North Atlantic atmospheric teleconnection, the second leading mode of low-frequency variability in all months, and a key indicator of weather regimes affecting Europe.
East Atlantic/West Russia pattern
The East Atlantic/West Russia (EAWR) pattern is a prominent Northern Hemisphere teleconnection pattern, identified in 1987, that links weather over the North Atlantic and Europe to conditions across Russia and Asia.
East Australian Current
The East Australian Current is a major ocean current flowing south along Australia's east coast from the Coral Sea, known for large eddies and warming the Tasman Sea.
East Azerbaijan Province
East Azerbaijan Province (Āz̄ārbāyjān-e Shārqī) is a province in northwestern Iran with its capital at Tabriz, known for carpet weaving and the UNESCO-listed Tabriz bazaar.
East Baghdad Oil Field
The East Baghdad Oil Field is a giant onshore oil field about 10 kilometers east of Baghdad, Iraq, discovered in 1974 with roughly 8 billion barrels of proven reserves.
East Baton Rouge Parish
East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana: parish with seat at Baton Rouge; 456,781 residents (2020); consolidated City-Parish government since 1949 under a Mayor-President and 12-member Metropolitan Council; created 1810.
East Bay
The East Bay is the subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, covering Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
East Bay Municipal Utility District
The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) is a publicly owned utility formed in 1923, serving 1.5 million water customers in the East Bay from the Mokelumne River.
East Bay Regional Park District
The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) is an independent special park district managing 73 parks across 126,809 acres in Alameda and Contra Costa counties east of San Francisco.
East Bengal Club (ইস্ট বেঙ্গল ক্লাব)
East Bengal Club (ইস্ট বেঙ্গল ক্লাব), or East Bengal FC, is a Kolkata football club founded 1 August 1920, ISL 2025-26 champion, and one side of the Kolkata Derby rivalry with Mohun Bagan, which it leads all-time.
East Berlin
East Berlin (Ost-Berlin) was the Soviet sector of divided Berlin and the capital of the GDR from 1949 to 1990, walled off from West Berlin in 1961, rebuilt around Alexanderplatz, and reunified with the West in 1990.
East Buy (东方甄选)
East Buy (东方甄选, Dongfang Zhenxuan), formerly the tutoring company Koolearn Technology, is a Chinese livestreaming e-commerce company that pivoted to selling agricultural products on Douyin after China's 2021 tutoring crackdown.
East Calcutta Wetlands
East Calcutta Wetlands (East Kolkata Wetlands), a 12,500 ha Ramsar site (no. 1208, 2002) east of Kolkata, India: sewage-fed fish ponds and farms that naturally treat most of the city's wastewater, producing fish and vegetables.
East Carolina University
East Carolina University (ECU) is a public R1 research university in Greenville, North Carolina, founded in 1907 as East Carolina Teachers Training School and a UNC System member since 1972, with 27,153 fall 2025 students and the Brody School of Medicine.
East Caroline Islands (Micronesia)
The East Caroline Islands are the easternmost islands of the Caroline Islands chain in the western Pacific, including Pohnpei and Kosrae and forming part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
East Carpathians Biosphere Reserve
East Carpathians Biosphere Reserve: first trilateral UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve (Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine; 1992/1998), 109,694 ha, Poloniny National Park, primeval beech forests, bison, World Heritage sites.
East Chattanooga
East Chattanooga, a Chattanooga, Tennessee neighborhood east of downtown near Missionary Ridge and the Glass Farm area, grew as a railroad-era industrial district and is now the focus of the East Chattanooga Rising redevelopment around the former Harriet Tubman housing site.
East China Sea
East China Sea: western Pacific marginal sea bounded by China, Taiwan, the Ryukyus, Kyushu, and Korea; 0.77 million km², Kuroshio transport 19–24 Sv, major fisheries, and 35% of global petroleum shipments (2023).
East Chukotka
East Chukotka, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 611, covers Chukotka Peninsula drainages north of the Anadyr plus Wrangel Island, Russia; permafrost-fed rivers, Beringian mixed fish fauna, and three endemic fishes.
East Coast Cape Barren Island Lagoons
The East Coast Cape Barren Island Lagoons are a Ramsar wetland complex of about 100 shallow lagoons on the east coast of Cape Barren Island, Tasmania, listed in 1982.
East Coast fever
East Coast fever is a fatal tick-borne cattle disease of eastern and southern Africa caused by Theileria parva, transmitted by Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, controlled by the live Muguga cocktail infection-and-treatment vaccine with oxytetracycline.
East Coast Greenway
East Coast Greenway: 3,000-mile developing walking and biking route from Calais, Maine to Key West, Florida through 15 states and 450 communities; over 1,100 traffic-free miles, coordinated by the East Coast Greenway Alliance founded 1991 in Durham, NC.