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East Nusa Tenggara
East Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Timur, NTT) is an Indonesian province established in 1958, capital Kupang, covering Flores, western Timor, and Sumba; population 5.65 million, GDP Rp128.52 trillion (2023), Indonesia's lowest per capita regional product and high poverty.
East of Eden (2026 miniseries)
East of Eden (2026 miniseries): seven-episode Netflix limited drama adapted by Zoe Kazan from Steinbeck's 1952 novel, starring Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames; premiered October 1, 2026, filmed in New Zealand, 19.1 million views.
East of Eden (film)
East of Eden (1955) is Elia Kazan's Warner Bros. drama adapted by Paul Osborn from Steinbeck's novel, covering only its final third; James Dean's first major role as Cal Trask, Jo Van Fleet's Oscar, Cannes and Golden Globe wins.
East of Eden (novel)
East of Eden is a 1952 novel by John Steinbeck that retells the story of Cain and Abel through the Trask and Hamilton families in California's Salinas Valley.
East of England
East of England: one of England's nine statistical regions (ONS E12000006), covering Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and nearby unitary authorities; £163bn GVA, 270,000 businesses, highest UK business R&D per capita, home to Sizewell C and the Cambridge Norwich Tech Corridor.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe in Norske Folkeeventyr (c. 1845), ATU 425A animal-bridegroom tale of a lassie, a White Bear, and a quest east of the sun and west of the moon; famous Kay Nielsen 1914 edition.
East of Wall
East of Wall is a 2025 American docufiction drama, Kate Beecroft's debut, starring rancher Tabatha Zimiga and daughter Porshia playing themselves in the South Dakota Badlands; Sundance NEXT Audience Award winner released by Sony Pictures Classics.
East Pacific Rise
The East Pacific Rise is a fast-spreading mid-ocean ridge on the eastern Pacific floor where new oceanic crust forms as the Pacific plate separates from the Cocos and Nazca plates.
East Pakistan (পূর্ব পাকিস্তান)
East Pakistan (পূর্ব পাকিস্তান): province of Pakistan 1955–1971, formed from East Bengal under the One Unit scheme; Bengali-majority wing holding 54 percent of the population, jute-based exports, and independence as Bangladesh after the 1971 war.
East Palace West Palace (东宫西宫)
East Palace West Palace (东宫西宫) is Zhang Yuan's 1996 Chinese-French drama, the first explicitly gay film produced in the PRC, about A-Lan's overnight police interrogation, smuggled abroad and shown at Cannes 1997.
East Palestine train derailment
The East Palestine train derailment was a February 2023 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, followed by a controlled burn of vinyl chloride.
East Palestine, Ohio
East Palestine is a village in Columbiana County, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania line, with a 2020 population of 4,761, known nationally for the February 2023 Norfolk Southern freight train derailment that released hazardous chemicals.
East Prussia
East Prussia (Ostpreußen), a former German Baltic province of 14,283 sq mi and 2.5 million people (1939), divided at Potsdam in 1945 between the USSR (Kaliningrad) and Poland, its German population expelled.
East Region
East Region (Région de l'Est) is Cameroon's largest region, 109,002 km² in the southeast, capital Bertoua, four departments, sparsely populated equatorial forest bordering Congo and the Central African Republic.
East Rennell
East Rennell is the southern third of Rennell Island in Solomon Islands, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1998 and on the danger list since 2013.
East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire: unitary authority (E06000011) in northern England, created 1 April 1996 on Humberside's abolition; over 930 square miles, 26 wards, and since 2025 part of the Hull and East Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority with a £400m devolution deal.
East River
The East River is a 16-mile (26 km) tidal strait in New York City connecting Upper New York Bay to Long Island Sound, separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Brooklyn and Queens, crossed by eight bridges including the Brooklyn Bridge.
East River Generating Station
East River Generating Station is a Con Edison cogeneration plant on the East River at 14th Street in Manhattan, producing electricity and steam and repowered with gas turbines in 2005.
East Rutherford, New Jersey
East Rutherford is a Bergen County, New Jersey borough (incorporated 1894, pop. about 10,500) in the Meadowlands, home to MetLife Stadium, the New York Jets and Giants, and the American Dream mall.
East Sepik Province
East Sepik Province, capital Wewak, is a province of northern Papua New Guinea defined by the Sepik River; 631,791 people (2024 census), 43,426 km², six districts, 28 LLGs, and cocoa and vanilla farming.
East Shewa Zone
East Shewa Zone, an agricultural zone of Oromia Region, Ethiopia, in the Rift Valley southeast of Addis Ababa; 10 districts, about 10,241 km2, 1.16 million people (2007), maize and teff farming, crater lakes, and OLA-related insecurity.
East Siberian Sea
East Siberian Sea (Восточно-Сибирское море), a shallow Arctic Ocean marginal sea between the New Siberian Islands and Wrangel Island; 913,000 km², mean depth 54 m, most ice-bound Russian Arctic sea, nearly 80% of world subsea permafrost.
East Side Access
East Side Access, the MTA's subway extension for the Long Island Rail Road, connects Queens to the new Grand Central Madison terminal beneath Grand Central, opened in 2023.
East Side Big Pipe
The East Side Big Pipe is a combined sewer overflow storage tunnel on Portland, Oregon's east riverbank, finished in 2011 as the city's largest sewer project.
East Side Gallery
East Side Gallery: 1.3 km of the Berlin Wall's inner wall (Hinterlandmauer) on Mühlenstraße, Friedrichshain, painted in 1990 by 118 artists from 21 countries; opened 28 September 1990, listed as a monument in 1991, fully repainted in 2009.
East Slavic languages
East Slavic languages: Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian (sometimes with Rusyn), a branch of Slavic descending from Old East Slavic (Old Rusian), the language of Kievan Rus'; defined by tj/dj > č/ž, pleophony, and loss of nasal vowels.
East Slavic name
East Slavic naming system of Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians: given name, patronymic, surname. Covers patronymic suffixes (-ovich/-ivna), -enko and -ov surname types, 988 Christianization, and Ukrainian name frequencies.
East Slavs
East Slavs: the Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarusians, speakers of the East Slavic branch of Slavic, shaped by Kyivan Rus, the 988 Christianization, and debated ethnogenesis and homeland.
East St. Louis, Illinois
East St. Louis, Illinois: a St. Clair County city across the Mississippi from St. Louis, population 18,469 (2020), 93.7% Black, site of the deadly July 2, 1917 race massacre and long industrial decline.
East Stirlingshire F.C.
East Stirlingshire F.C., the Shire, is a Scottish football club in Falkirk founded 1881, now in the Lowland League East; Scottish Division Two champions 1931-32 and Alex Ferguson's first management job in 1974.