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East Nusa Tenggara

East Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Timur, NTT) is an Indonesian province established in 1958, capital Kupang, covering Flores, western Timor, and Sumba; population 5.65 million, GDP Rp128.52 trillion (2023), Indonesia's lowest per capita regional product and high poverty.

East Pakistan (পূর্ব পাকিস্তান)

East Pakistan (পূর্ব পাকিস্তান): province of Pakistan 1955–1971, formed from East Bengal under the One Unit scheme; Bengali-majority wing holding 54 percent of the population, jute-based exports, and independence as Bangladesh after the 1971 war.

East Region

East Region (Région de l'Est) is Cameroon's largest region, 109,002 km² in the southeast, capital Bertoua, four departments, sparsely populated equatorial forest bordering Congo and the Central African Republic.

East Sepik Province

East Sepik Province, capital Wewak, is a province of northern Papua New Guinea defined by the Sepik River; 631,791 people (2024 census), 43,426 km², six districts, 28 LLGs, and cocoa and vanilla farming.

Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape (iMpuma-Koloni region of South Africa): province created in 1994 from the eastern Cape Province plus Transkei and Ciskei; capital Bhisho; 168,966 km2; Census 2022 population 7,230,204; isiXhosa-speaking majority; automotive manufacturing hub.

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 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 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 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, 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.

Ebonyi State

Ebonyi State is a state in south-eastern Nigeria, inhabited primarily by the Igbo people, with its capital and largest city at Abakaliki. It was created in 1996 from parts of Enugu and Abia States.

Edo State

Edo State, a South-South Nigerian state with capital Benin City, created August 27, 1991 from Bendel State; 18 LGAs, 17,802 km², non-oil economy of N2.4 trillion GDP, largest Nigerian oil palm producer, IGR over N100 billion in 2025.

Eight Provinces of Korea

The Eight Provinces of Korea (팔도, paldo) were the eight provincial divisions into which the Joseon dynasty organized the Korean Peninsula in 1413, lasting until 1895.

Ekiti State

Ekiti State, also called the Land of Honour and formerly Fountain of Knowledge, is a South-West Nigerian state created 1 October 1996 by Abacha from Ondo State, capital Ado-Ekiti, 16 LGAs, agrarian knowledge-economy economy.

El Oued Province

El Oued Province (Wilaya d'El Oued), wilaya 39 of Algeria in the northeastern Sahara, capital El Oued. Known for the 15th-century ghout oasis system (FAO GIAHS since 2011) and expanding pivot-irrigated date palm and potato farming.

Elisabethpol Governorate

Elisabethpol Governorate (Елизаветпольская губерния) was a governorate of the Russian Empire in eastern Transcaucasia from 1868 to 1917, with its center at Elisabethpol, now Ganja.

Embu

Embu County, a county of Kenya on the southeastern slopes of Mount Kenya, capital Embu town; population 608,599 (2019), agriculture-based economy, four constituencies, led by Governor Cecily Mbarire.

Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna is an administrative region of northern Italy formed from the historical territories of Emilia and Romagna, with its capital at Bologna and nine provinces including Parma and Rimini.

Emirate of Bukhara (امارت بخارا)

Emirate of Bukhara (امارت بخارا), Manghit-ruled Central Asian state, 1747/1785–1920, capital Bukhara; Russian protectorate from 1868, abolished by the Red Army in 1920 for the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic.

Emirate of Tbilisi

The Emirate of Tbilisi (Georgian: თბილისის საამირო; Arabic: إمارة تفليسي) was a Muslim emirate ruled from Tbilisi under Arab Caliphate suzerainty until David IV took the city in 1122.

Enga Province

Enga Province is a Highlands province of Papua New Guinea, 583 km northwest of Port Moresby, with capital Wabag, 571,060 people (2021), and the Porgera gold mine.

Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou

Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (恩施土家族苗族自治州), the Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture in southwestern Hubei, China. Established in 1983, it is Hubei's only autonomous prefecture.

Entre Ríos

Entre Ríos is a province of northeastern Argentina whose borders are the Uruguay and Paraná rivers and whose Paraná floodplain forms one of the world's largest freshwater wetland systems.

Enugu State

Enugu State is a state in southeastern Nigeria created in 1991 out of the old Anambra State, with its capital at Enugu, the historic Coal City.

Équateur Province

Équateur Province (Province de l'Équateur) is a DRC province in the northwest with capital Mbandaka, area 103,902 km², created 1917 and split into five provinces in 2015; forest, river transport, and high poverty define it.

Erivan Governorate

Erivan Governorate was a province of the Russian Empire in the South Caucasus, established in 1849 from parts of the Tiflis and Shemakha governorates, with its capital at Erivan, now Yerevan.

Erzurum Province

Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia province of Turkey with capital Erzurum; 736,877 people in 2025, 24,768 km² (4th largest), high-altitude continental climate, first 1864 vilayet, site of the 1919 Erzurum Congress.

Espírito Santo

Espírito Santo is a Brazilian state in the Southeast region, capital Vitória, also called capixaba. Known for conilon coffee (over 75% of national output), 46,074 km² area, 3.83 million people, and HDI 0.771.