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Eastern District, Hong Kong
Eastern District (东区) is one of the 18 district council districts of Hong Kong, covering northeastern Hong Kong Island and home to about 520,200 people in 2023.
Eastern Equatoria
Eastern Equatoria is a state of South Sudan with capital Torit, about 0.91 million people (2008 census), agro-pastoral livelihoods, Imatong Mountains, recurring drought and food insecurity, and 11 constituencies for the December 2026 elections.
Eastern equine encephalitis
Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE, EEEV) is a rare, severe mosquito-borne alphavirus disease of the US Atlantic, Gulf Coast, and Great Lakes regions, cycling between Culiseta melanura and swamp birds, with about 30% fatality in neuroinvasive cases and no licensed human vaccine.
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe: the eastern part of Europe, also the Eastern Bloc's former sphere. UN Geoscheme lists ten countries including Russia; Baltics counted as Northern Europe; EU/NATO integration and the Ukraine war keep reshaping who counts.
Eastern European Time
Eastern European Time (EET), also called Eastern European Standard Time, is a UTC+2 time zone used in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, switching to UTC+3 in summer.
Eastern Extension telegraph cables in East Asia and the Philippines
The Eastern Extension telegraph cables were British-controlled submarine telegraph lines operated from the 1870s, linking Hong Kong with Shanghai, the Philippines, Indochina, and Borneo until the company's absorption in 1974.
Eastern Finland
Eastern Finland (Itä-Suomi): eastern part of Finland; a Statistics Finland major region (code 3) of Etelä-Savo, Pohjois-Savo, North Karelia, and Kainuu until 2012, when it merged into Northern and Eastern Finland.
Eastern Front (World War I)
The Eastern Front of World War I was the theater of war fought 1914 to 1918 between the Baltic and Black Seas, pitting Russia against Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Eastern Front (World War II)
Eastern Front (World War II), also the Great Patriotic War or German-Soviet War 1941-1945: the largest, deadliest WWII theater, opened by Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941, ending with Germany's defeat in May 1945, with over 30 million deaths and three quarters of German losses.
Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage System (EGTS)
Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage System (EGTS) is an interstate natural gas transmission and storage company, operating nearly 4,000 miles of pipeline and one of the largest underground storage systems in the United States.
Eastern Ghats
The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous hill chain along India's east coast across Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Highest peak Mahendragiri (1,501 m); a Proterozoic belt tied to Columbia, Rodinia and Gondwana, broken by east-flowing rivers, with tribal podu farming and bauxite mining pressure.
Eastern gorilla
Eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei), a Critically Endangered great ape of eastern DRC, Uganda, and Rwanda, with two subspecies: mountain gorilla (over 1,000, increasing) and Grauer's gorilla, the world's largest primate (about 6,800, declining).
Eastern gray squirrel
Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), a medium-sized North American tree squirrel native to the eastern US and Canada, famous for scatter-hoarding nuts; invasive in Britain and Italy, where it displaces the red squirrel and carries squirrelpox.
Eastern green mamba
Eastern green mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps), highly venomous arboreal elapid of East African coastal forests, averaging 1.8-2.0 m; 3FTx-predominant neurotoxic venom, WHO category 1, sister species of the black mamba.
Eastern grey kangaroo
Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), a large macropod marsupial of eastern Australia and Tasmania, living in mobs of 10 or more, grazing on grasses, with 36-day gestation, 64 km/h top speed, and IUCN Least Concern status.
Eastern Gulf of Thailand Drainages
Eastern Gulf of Thailand Drainages, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 731, coastal rivers of southeastern Thailand and western Cambodia between the Chao Phraya and Mekong basins, including the Chanthaburi, Welu, Trat, and Meteuk rivers.
Eastern Habitat Joint Venture
Eastern Habitat Joint Venture (EHJV), Plan conjoint des habitats de l'Est, is a Canadian waterfowl habitat partnership founded in 1989 under NAWMP, covering Ontario through Newfoundland and Labrador, 315 million hectares, 30% of Canada's wetlands.
Eastern Hemisphere
The Eastern Hemisphere is Earth's half east of the prime meridian (0°, Greenwich) and west of the antimeridian (180°), covering most of Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania; also called the Old World, with 20°W/160°E as an alternative boundary.
Eastern Highlands Province
Eastern Highlands Province, capital Goroka, is a landlocked Papua New Guinea highlands province of 11,157 km² with eight districts, about 800,000 people in 2024, and a coffee-dominated economy.
Eastern hognose snake
Eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos), a harmless North American toad-eating snake with an upturned snout, mild rear-fang venom, and famous death-feigning defense; IUCN least concern but protected in Ontario and Connecticut.
Eastern Hudson Bay - Ungava
Eastern Hudson Bay - Ungava, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 113, a Temperate coastal rivers unit in northern Quebec and Labrador draining to Hudson Bay, Ungava Bay, and the Labrador Sea; no endemic fishes, Arctic char runs, Threatened and Endangered beluga stocks.
Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
The Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (Keleti Magyar Királyság) was the eastern remnant of medieval Hungary, ruled by John I and John Sigismund from 1526 to 1570.
Eastern Iberia
Eastern Iberia (FEOW ecoregion 414, Ibero-Mediterranean ecoregion) is a freshwater ecoregion of northeastern Spain, Andorra, and France, covering Mediterranean-draining basins including the Ebro, Ter, and Júcar, with high Iberian fish endemism.
Eastern Illinois University
Eastern Illinois University (EIU) is a public comprehensive university in Charleston, Illinois, founded in 1895; known for 1:15 faculty ratio, NCAA Division I Panthers, and top independent public regional ranking in Illinois.
Eastern indigo snake
Eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi), the longest native US snake, a non-venomous threatened colubrid of Florida and Georgia longleaf pine habitat that shelters in gopher tortoise burrows and eats other snakes.
Eastern Interconnection
The Eastern Interconnection is the North American power grid covering everything east of the Rocky Mountains except most of Texas and Quebec, running at a synchronized 60 Hz.
Eastern Jin
The Eastern Jin (東晉) was a Chinese dynasty founded by Sima Rui at Jiankang in 317, ruling southern China while the north fractured into rival states.
Eastern Lightning (东方闪电)
Eastern Lightning (东方闪电), today known as the Church of Almighty God (全能神教会), is a Chinese Christian-derived new religious movement founded in the early 1990s that teaches Jesus has returned as a Chinese woman.
Eastern Maine Medical Center
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC), Bangor, Maine; founded 1892 as Bangor General Hospital; flagship of Northern Light Health; Level 2 Trauma Center, Stroke Center of Excellence, 411 beds.
Eastern Mediterranean
The Eastern Mediterranean is the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, covering the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean, and Levantine Seas. A Tethys relict bordered by ten states, it has anti-estuarine circulation, giant offshore gas fields, and heavy Lessepsian invasions.