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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.
East Coast Main Line
The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a British railway trunk route from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, 393 miles long, the former route of the Flying Scotsman.
East Coast of the United States
The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, is the Atlantic-facing coast from Maine to Florida with a continental climate.
East Coast Rail Link
The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) is a 665-kilometer electrified passenger and freight railway under construction in Peninsular Malaysia, from Kota Bharu to Port Klang.
East Coker
East Coker: village and parish in Somerset, 3 miles SSW of Yeovil. Known for a Roman villa found in 1753, St Michael's Church, sailcloth making, William Dampier's birthplace, and T. S. Eliot's poem and grave.
East Creech villa
East Creech villa is a Romano-British villa site near East Creech, Dorset, England, discovered in 1869 and occupied from the 2nd to the 4th century.
East Crystal Source (东方晶源微电子科技（北京）股份有限公司) (Dongfang Jingyuan)
East Crystal Source (东方晶源, Dongfang Jingyuan) is a Chinese semiconductor yield-management company founded in 2014 and based in Beijing, making electron-beam wafer inspection tools and computational lithography software.
East End of London
The East End of London is the informal district east of the City, north of the Thames, defined by docks, industry, immigration and poverty; key facts include the world's largest 19th-century wet docks, the Jewish East End, and Olympic-led regeneration and gentrification.
East End X Yuri
East End X Yuri, also written EAST END×YURI, was a Japanese hip-hop unit active from 1994 to 1996, whose single "DA.YO.NE" became Japan's first hip-hop million-seller.
East Flanders
East Flanders (Oost-Vlaanderen), Belgian province in the Flemish Region, capital Ghent; 1,611,409 inhabitants on 3,027 km² across 55 municipalities, NUTS BE23, highest provincial employment rate (80%, 2022).
East Flatbush, Brooklyn
East Flatbush, formerly called Rugby, is a largely residential neighborhood in northeastern Brooklyn with a 2024 population of about 129,738 and a large Caribbean-American community.
East Flood Canal
The East Flood Canal (Banjir Kanal Timur) is a 23.5-kilometer flood-control canal in eastern and northern Jakarta, Indonesia, built to divert floodwater from rivers east of the city to the Java Sea.
East Francia
East Francia (Francia orientalis) was the eastern Carolingian successor kingdom created by the Treaty of Verdun in 843 for Louis the German; its Carolingian line ended in 911, Henry the Fowler was accepted in 919, and it became the Kingdom of Germany, core of the Holy Roman Empire.
East German literature
East German literature is the German-language writing produced in the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic between 1945 and 1990, largely under socialist realism and state censorship.
East German mark
The East German mark, colloquially the Ostmark, was the currency of East Germany from 1948 to 1990, replaced by the Deutsche Mark in the 1990 monetary union.
East Germanic languages
East Germanic languages: extinct Germanic branch including Gothic, Vandalic, and Burgundian. Gothic, attested in Wulfila's 4th-century Bible translation, is the sole member documented in connected texts; the branch died out with Crimean Gothic.
East Germany at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
East Germany competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York City with 4 athletics athletes, winning 3 silver and 1 bronze medal.
East Germany national football team
East Germany national football team (DDR, DFV), 1952-1990; only World Cup appearance 1974, beating West Germany 1-0 via Sparwasser in the states' only competitive meeting; Olympic gold 1976; merged into DFB at reunification.
East Godavari district (తూర్పు గోదావరి జిల్లా)
East Godavari district (తూర్పు గోదావరి జిల్లా), Andhra Pradesh district headquartered at Rajamahendravaram, formed 4 April 2022; Godavari delta, rice bowl of Andhra Pradesh, Coringa mangroves, fisheries and paddy economy.
East Greenland Ice-core Project
The East Greenland Ice-core Project, known as EastGRIP, drilled a 2,670-meter ice core through the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, the first deep core through a fast-flowing ice stream.
East Hampton, New York
East Hampton, New York is a town in Suffolk County on the eastern end of Long Island's South Fork, founded in 1648 and known as one of the Hamptons.