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Eastern Continental Divide
The Eastern Continental Divide is the drainage divide of the eastern United States separating Atlantic Ocean watersheds (Susquehanna, Potomac, Roanoke) from Mississippi River, Gulf of Mexico drainage, running partly through the Appalachian Mountains.
Eastern copperhead
Eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), venomous pit viper of the eastern and central United States; hourglass crossbands, 50–95 cm; formerly five subspecies, now two copperhead species with no subspecies.
Eastern cottontail
Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus), the most widespread North American cottontail rabbit, native from the Great Plains to Central America, introduced to the Northeast and Europe, competitor of the New England cottontail.
Eastern cougar
Eastern cougar (Puma concolor couguar), also called eastern puma, an extinct cougar subspecies of eastern North America; last confirmed in 1938, listed endangered 1978, delisted as extinct by USFWS effective February 22, 2018.
Eastern Counties Football League
The Eastern Counties Football League, known as the Thurlow Nunn League, is an English football league founded in 1935 for clubs in East Anglia, playing at steps 5 and 6 of the National League System.
Eastern Darfur
Eastern Darfur (East Darfur, شرق دارفور) is a Sudanese state created in January 2012 from South Darfur under the Doha peace agreement, with capital Ed Daein, about 1.7 million people, and heavy displacement and famine risk since the 2023 war.
Eastern Deffufa
The Eastern Deffufa is a large mud-brick funerary temple in the Eastern Cemetery at Kerma, Sudan, serving royal burials of the Kingdom of Kush around 2500 to 1500 BC.
Eastern Depot
The Eastern Depot (东厂) was the Ming dynasty's eunuch-run office of secret investigation, created by the Yongle emperor to hunt treason and subversive speech, working alongside the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Eastern Desert
Eastern Desert, also called the Arabian Desert, is Egypt's arid region between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea, about 220,000-225,000 km². Hyperarid since c. 2500 BC, rich in gold and emeralds, crossed by ancient trade routes to Red Sea ports.
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus), largest US rattlesnake, of southeastern longleaf pine savannas; declining from habitat loss, skin trade, and persecution; ESA listing determined not warranted in 2023.
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.