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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 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 Lansing, Michigan
East Lansing, Michigan: Ingham/Clinton county city incorporated 1907, named by the state Senate over local favorite College Park; home of Michigan State University (founded 1855), population 47,741 in 2020, council-manager government.
East Palestine, Ohio
East Palestine is a village in Columbiana County, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania line, with a 2020 population of 4,761, known nationally for the February 2023 Norfolk Southern freight train derailment that released hazardous chemicals.
East Rutherford, New Jersey
East Rutherford is a Bergen County, New Jersey borough (incorporated 1894, pop. about 10,500) in the Meadowlands, home to MetLife Stadium, the New York Jets and Giants, and the American Dream mall.
East St. Louis, Illinois
East St. Louis, Illinois: a St. Clair County city across the Mississippi from St. Louis, population 18,469 (2020), 93.7% Black, site of the deadly July 2, 1917 race massacre and long industrial decline.
Eastbourne
Eastbourne is a seaside town in East Sussex, England, on the English Channel coast between Brighton and Hastings, known for its Victorian seafront and Beachy Head.
Easton, Pennsylvania
Easton, Pennsylvania: county seat of Northampton County at the Delaware-Lehigh river confluence, founded 1752 by the Penns, site of a 1776 Declaration reading, population about 30,000, home of Crayola Experience.
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is a city at the confluence of the Eau Claire and Chippewa Rivers; incorporated in 1872, it is the seventh-largest city in Wisconsin.
Ebingen
Ebingen, now a district of Albstadt in the Zollernalbkreis, Germany, is documented from 793 (Ebinga) and hosts a Roman earth-and-timber cohort fort of the Alblimes of about 80 AD, plus an excavated early medieval village.
Eboracum
Eboracum (Eburacum), the Roman name of York, England: legionary fortress founded AD 71-74 by Legio IX Hispana, rebuilt in stone AD 107-8, a colonia by the early 3rd century, later seat of a bishop.
Ecatepec de Morelos
Ecatepec de Morelos, Estado de México municipality on former Lake Texcoco; Mexico's most populous municipality (1,645,352 in 2020), home of the colonial Albarradón dike, Mexicable cable car, and rapid irregular urbanization.
Ecbatana
Ecbatana (Old Persian Hagmatana, modern Hamadan, Iran) was the Median capital, Achaemenid summer capital, and satrapal seat of Media; Herodotus describes seven concentric colored walls, and Tell Hagmatana preserves its excavated remains.
Echternach
Echternach (Iechternach) is Luxembourg's oldest town, on the Sauer at the German border, built around the Benedictine abbey Saint Willibrord founded in 698; famous for the Whit Tuesday Hopping Procession inscribed by UNESCO in 2010, a Roman villa, and the Mullerthal region.
Ecoust-St-Mein
Écoust-Saint-Mein, a rural commune in Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, near Bapaume and Arras, site of one of the largest trapezoidal-plan Gallo-Roman villas of northern Gaul (L'Homme Mort) and a village rebuilt after the 1917-1918 offensives.
Ecumenopolis
Ecumenopolis: a planet-wide continuous city, coined by Greek planner Constantinos Doxiadis in 1967 within his ekistics theory; projected as the inevitable final stage of urbanization, later critiqued as infeasible and adopted in science fiction.
Edessa
Edessa (Urhai, Arabic Rohāʾ), now Urfa in southeastern Turkey, was the capital of ancient Osrhoene, a Roman-Persian frontier city, center of Syriac Christianity, and later a Crusader county capital.
Edina, Minnesota
Edina, Minnesota: first-ring Hennepin County suburb southwest of Minneapolis, population 53,494. Known for the 1924 Thorpe Brothers Country Club District, racial covenants, 2018 Comprehensive Plan, and Southdale Library rebuild.
Edinburg, Texas
Edinburg, Texas, county seat of Hidalgo County in the Rio Grande Valley, founded as Chapin in 1908 and renamed 1911. Population about 110,700 (2025 estimate); major employers include DHR Health, UTRGV, and Edinburg CISD.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann), Scotland's capital and council area, had 531,370 people in 2025, a UNESCO-listed Old and New Town, major festivals, and the UK's highest employment rate among major cities.
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, known locally as the Settlement, is the capital and only village on Tristan da Cunha, generally regarded as the world's most remote settlement.
Edirne
Edirne (Adrianople), city in Turkish Thrace; Ottoman capital 1361-1453; home of the Selimiye Mosque (1568-1575, Sinan's masterpiece, UNESCO site since 2011) and the Kırkpınar wrestling festival.
Edmond, Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma: a city in northern Oklahoma County founded in 1887 as a Santa Fe Railway coal and water stop at Mile Marker 103, named for agent Edmond Burdick, settled in the 1889 Land Run, home of the University of Central Oklahoma.
Edmonton
Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada, on the North Saskatchewan River in Treaty Six territory. Grew from a 1778 fur trade post; 1,010,899 residents in 2021, about 1.24 million by 2025; opened Canada's pioneering 1978 LRT.
Edo (江戸)
Edo (江戸), the former name of Tokyo, was the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate from 1603 to 1868 and Japan's de facto capital, growing to about one million people before its 1868 renaming as Tokyo.
Edson, Alberta
Edson, Alberta: a town of about 8,400 in Yellowhead County on Highway 16, founded 1911-1912 as a Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad supply depot named for Edson J. Chamberlain, with a resource economy in oil and gas, forestry, and coal.
Efon-Alaaye
Efon-Alaaye (Efon Alaaye) is a hilly town in Ekiti State, Nigeria, headquarters of Efon LGA (created 1996), seat of the Alaaye, founded per oral tradition by the Aaye from Ile-Ife, farming cocoa and kola.
Efrat (אפרת) (Israeli settlement)
Efrat (אפרת, also Efrata) is an Israeli settlement and local council in the Gush Etzion bloc of the West Bank, founded in 1983 by Moshe Moskovics and Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, about 12 km south of Jerusalem, mainly religious-Zionist with 11,421 residents in 2020.
Egilsstaðir
Egilsstaðir is the largest town in East Iceland, on the banks of the Lagarfljót river, established in 1947 and serving as the region's service, transportation, and administration center.
Eichstätt
Eichstätt, Große Kreisstadt in Upper Bavaria on the Altmühl, seat of the Diocese of Eichstätt founded around 740 by Willibald and home to the only Catholic university in the German-speaking area; former prince-bishopric, about 14,000 inhabitants.