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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.
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University (EMU), public university in Ypsilanti, Michigan, founded March 28, 1849 as a normal school. 5 academic colleges, 525 programs, $321.5M 2025-26 budget; President Brendan Kelly since April 1, 2026.
Eastern newt
Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens), also called red-spotted newt or red eft (juvenile stage): a common eastern North American salamander of family Salamandridae with a four-stage life cycle, tetrodotoxin-bearing skin, and IUCN Least Concern status.
Eastern Ontario
Eastern Ontario, also called Southeastern Ontario, is a region of Ontario, Canada, extending from the Ottawa River and Québec boundary to Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.
Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, also called the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church, is a communion of self-governing Christian churches with about 260 million adherents, mostly in Europe.
Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar orders Orthodox Christian worship through feasts, fasts, and readings, combining a fixed cycle with a movable cycle pivoting on Pascha; its year begins September 1.
Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy is a communion of self-governing Orthodox Christian churches recognizing the first seven ecumenical councils, with about 200 million members, mostly in Eastern Europe.
Eastern Pacific coral reefs
Eastern Pacific coral reefs are the reef systems of the tropical Pacific American coast, from Baja California to northern Peru, including offshore islands like the Galápagos.
Eastern Partnership
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) is the EU's 2009 cooperation framework with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, the eastern dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy, offering association agreements, DCFTAs, and visa liberalization; Belarus suspended participation in 2021.
Eastern philosophy
Eastern philosophy is an umbrella term for Asian philosophical traditions, including Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist thought, covering Indian, Chinese, and Japanese schools and the comparative East-West methodology debates.
Eastern Promises
Eastern Promises (2007) is a David Cronenberg crime thriller, written by Steven Knight, starring Viggo Mortensen as London Russian-mob driver Nikolai and Naomi Watts as midwife Anna; it won TIFF's People's Choice Award and earned Mortensen an Oscar nomination.
Eastern Province, Rwanda
Eastern Province (Intara y'Iburasirazuba), Rwanda's most populous province (3,563,145 in 2022), created in the 2006 territorial reform, capital Rwamagana, seven districts including Nyagatare and Bugesera, drought-prone farming region.
Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Eastern Province (المنطقة الشرقية), Saudi Arabia's largest province by area (540,000 km²), capital Dammam. Prime energy hub with Ghawar and Safaniya oil fields, Saudi Aramco, and the 1938 Dammam No. 7 oil discovery.
Eastern Province, Sierra Leone
Eastern Province, Sierra Leone: one of the country's four provinces, covering Kailahun, Kenema, and Kono districts with headquarters at Kenema. A diamond-mining and cocoa-growing region with 1.18 million people (2004 census) and 60.9% poverty.
Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
The Eastern Province is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, occupying the eastern coast with its capital at Trincomalee and three districts: Trincomalee, Batticaloa, and Ampara.
Eastern Province, Zambia
Eastern Province, Zambia: one of Zambia's ten provinces, capital Chipata, between the Luangwa River and the Malawi and Mozambique borders; 15 districts, about 52,056 km², predominantly rural and agricultural.
Eastern Question
The Eastern Question, known to Ottomans as the Western Question, was the European Great Powers' diplomatic problem of handling the declining Ottoman Empire from 1774 to 1923.
Eastern Region (Nepal)
Eastern Region (Eastern Development Region, पूर्वाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र), Nepal's former easternmost planning region of Mechi, Koshi, and Sagarmatha zones with 16 districts; dissolved by the 2015 Constitution into Province No. 1.
Eastern Region, Ghana
Eastern Region, Ghana: one of the five original regions at independence, capital Koforidua, area 19,323 km², 2021 census population about 2.9 million, third most populous region, 33 districts, agrarian cocoa and pineapple economy.
Eastern Region, Uganda
Eastern Region (Eastern Uganda) is one of Uganda's four administrative regions, comprising the Busoga, Bukedi, Bugisu, Sebei, and Teso sub-regions, with about 11.4 million people in 2024, Mount Elgon agriculture, and the country's highest monetary poverty rate.
Eastern rosella
Eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius, white-cheeked rosella), a red-headed Australian parrot of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania, introduced to New Zealand from 1910; IUCN Least Concern, cavity nester, BFDV carrier in NZ.