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East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
East Africa is a subregion of the continent of Africa, according to the United Nations Geoscheme. It consists of 18 countries and 2 dependencies. The subregion stretches from Eritrea in the north to Mozambique in the south. Off the coast of East Africa is the Indian Ocean.
Eastern Africa, part of sub-Saharan Africa comprising two traditionally recognized regions: East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; and the Horn of Africa, made up of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. Eastern Africa consists largely of plateaus and has most of the highest.
East Africa is the eastern region of Africa, bordered by North Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the Sahara Desert. Colonial boundaries are reflected in the modern boundaries between contemporary East African states, cutting across ethnic and cultural lines, often dividing single ethnic groups between two or more ...
Eastern Africa is a region of sub–Saharan Africa containing the easternmost region of the continent, composed of two distinct regions: East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; Horn of Africa, made up of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.
East Africa is a region that begins in Tanzania in the south and extends north through the great grasslands and scrub forest of the savannas of Kenya and Uganda and then across the highlands of Ethiopia, including the Great Rift Valley.
Eastern Africa - Precolonial, Tribes, Trade: The coast was never more than East Africa’s fringe. Beyond the harsh nyika, or wilderness, which lay immediately inland and was nowhere pierced by a long, navigable river, thornbush country extended to the south, sometimes interspersed with pleasanter plains toward the centre, while to the north ...
East Africa is made up Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti (Horn of Africa), Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi (the African Great Lakes region) and the island nations of Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, Réunion and Mayotte in the Indian Ocean.
The Eastern Africa Region is home to some of the world’s largest and worst humanitarian crises driven by climate change, conflicts, political instability, diseases, and economic shocks. Nearly 67 million people are now in need of assistance including refugees and asylum seekers in Eastern Africa region, accounting for more than 21 per cent of ...
East Africa is the part of Africa around and east of the Great Rift Valley, a land feature stretching from the Gulf of Aden in the north, the Guardafui Channel in the east, and the Mozambique Channel in the southeast.