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East African Development Bank
The East African Development Bank is a development finance institution owned by Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda, founded in 1967 and headquartered in Kampala, which lends to enterprises and member states for development projects.
East African Federation
The East African Federation (Shirikisho la Afrika Mashariki) is the proposed political union of the East African Community's eight Partner States, adopted as a confederation model in 2017.
East African Holding
East African Holding is a family-owned, diversified industrial group headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, tracing its stated roots to an 1891 mule-caravan trading enterprise and spanning consumer goods, agriculture, cement, mining, and logistics.
East African Legislative Assembly
The East African Legislative Assembly is the legislature of the East African Community, seated at Arusha, Tanzania, and described as Africa's only regional parliament with real legislative powers.
East African Literature Bureau
The East African Literature Bureau (EALB) was a publishing and library organization headquartered in Nairobi, established in 1948, which published books in English, Swahili, and other East African languages.
East African Railways and Harbours Corporation
The East African Railways and Harbours Corporation was the jointly owned railway and ports utility of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika, operating as a shared regional service until 1977.
East African Rift
The East African Rift, also called the Great African Rift Valley, is an active continental rift zone where the Nubian and Somalian plates pull apart.
East Aleppo offensive (2024–2025)
East Aleppo offensive (2024–2025): fighting in Aleppo governorate between the Kurdish-led SDF and the Turkish-backed SNA from November 30, 2024 (Operation Dawn of Freedom), later a government offensive that dismantled the SDF position by the January 18, 2026 ceasefire.
East Anglia
East Anglia: notional cultural region of eastern England named for the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, centered on Norfolk and Suffolk; not an official administrative area, now within the East of England region.
East Antarctica
East Antarctica: the sector of Antarctica east of the Transantarctic Mountains, a largely above-sea-level craton carrying the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, about 52.2 m of sea-level equivalent, with rigid bedrock, slow isostatic rebound, and vulnerable marine-based basins.
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.