East Africa
East Africa is the part of Africa around and east of the Great Rift Valley, a land feature stretching from the Red Sea in the north, the Guardafui Channel in the east, and the Mozambique Channel in the southeast.Tap on the map to travel |
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Tanzania
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Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa. Modern Tanzania combines two areas that formerly were governed separately: Tanganyika on the coast of the African mainland and the island of Zanzibar nearby.
Ethiopia
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Ethiopia is Africa's third-most populous country, oldest independent country and one of only two never colonised by a European power, save for a short Italian occupation in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Somalia
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Somalia is a country on the Horn of Africa. Once the centre of many powerful sultanates and an Italian colony, the country has been in a state of chaos and turmoil since the 1980s.
Uganda
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Uganda was called the Pearl of Africa by Winston Churchill.
Rwanda
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Rwanda is a relatively stable East African country, and easily accessible from Kenya and Uganda.
Eritrea
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Eritrea is a country in East Africa. Formerly an Italian colony, the country shares a common language and culture with its large neighbour, Ethiopia, which it was once a part of until Eritrea gained its independence in 1993.
Burundi
Burundi is a small country in East Africa, although it has some cultural and geographical ties with Central Africa.East Africa
- Type: region
- Description: easterly region of the African continent
- Neighbors: Central Africa, North Africa and Southern Africa
- Category: cultural region
- Location: Africa
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Latitude of centre
-2.7021° or 2° 42' 7" southLongitude of centre
37.0738° or 37° 4' 26" eastWikidata ID
Q27407East Africa Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Tafriqt Usamar
- Achinese: Afrika Timu
- Afar: Shıǵıs Afrika
- Afrikaans: Oos-Afrika
- Albanian: Afrika lindore
- Amharic: ምሥራቅ አፍሪካ
- Arabic: Sinirangan nga Apriká
- Arabic: شرق أفريقيا
- Arabic: شرق إفريقيا
- Armenian: Արևելյան Աֆրիկա
- Arpitan: Africa du Levant
- Asturian: África Oriental
- Avaric: Ronefa Afrika
- Azerbaijani: Şərqi Afrika
- Bashkir: Көнсығыш Африка
- Basque: Ekialdeko Afrika
- Belarusian: Усходняя Афрыка
- Bengali: পূর্ব আফ্রিকা
- Bosnian: Istočna Afrika
- Breton: Afrika ar Reter
- Bulgarian: Източна Африка
- Catalan: Àfrica Oriental
- Central Kurdish: ئەفریقای ڕۆژھەڵات
- Chinese: Tang Hui-chiu
- Chinese: 东部非洲
- Chinese: 东非
- Chinese: 東非
- Chuvash: Тухăç Африка
- Corsican: Africa orientale
- Corsican: Africa orientali
- Croatian: Istočna Afrika
- Czech: Východní Afrika
- Danish: Østafrika
- Dimli (individual language): Afrika Rocvetışi
- Dutch: Oost-Afrika
- Egyptian Arabic: شرق افريقيا
- English: Eastern Africa
- Esperanto: Orient-Afriko
- Esperanto: Orienta Afriko
- Esperanto: Orientafriko
- Estonian: Ida-Aafrika
- Finnish: Itä-Afrikka
- French: Afrique de l'Est
- Galician: África oriental
- Georgian: აღმოსავლეთი აფრიკა
- German: Ostafrika
- German: Östliches Afrika
- Greek: Ανατολική Αφρική
- Haitian: Afrik lès
- Hausa: Gabashin Afirka
- Hebrew: מזרח אפריקה
- Hindi: पूर्वी अफ्रीका
- Hungarian: Kelet-Afrika
- Icelandic: Austur-Afríka
- Iloko: Akindaya nga Aprika
- Iloko: Daya nga Aprika
- Inari Sami: Nuorttâ-Afrik
- Indonesian: Afrika Timur
- Irish: An Afraic Thoir
- Italian: Africa orientale
- Japanese: 東アフリカ
- Javanese: Afrika Wétan
- Kabyle: Tafriqt Usamar
- Kannada: ಪೂರ್ವ ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Shıg'ıs Afrika
- Kazakh: Шығыс Африка
- Khmer: អាហ្វ្រិកខាងកើត
- Kinaray-A: Afrika Nasidlangan
- Kinaray-A: Nasidlangan nga Afrika
- Kinyarwanda: Imiterere ya Afurika y'Iburasirazuba n'ibidukikije byaho
- Kirghiz: Чыгыш Африка
- Kongo: Afelika ya Lunene
- Korean: 동아불리가
- Korean: 동아프리카
- Kotava: Ronefa Afrika
- Lao: Daya nga Aprika
- Latin: Africa Orientalis
- Latvian: Austrumāfrika
- Limburgan: Oas-Afrika
- Lingua Franca Nova: Africa este
- Lithuanian: Rytų Afrika
- Macedonian: Источна Африка
- Malagasy: Afrika Atsinanana
- Malay: Afrika Timur
- Marathi: पूर्व आफ्रिका
- Min Nan Chinese: Tang Hui-chiu
- Mingrelian: ბჟაეიოლი აფრიკა
- Moksha: Шиньстямаширень Африкась
- Mongolian: Дорно Африк
- Mongolian: Дорнод Африк
- N'Ko: ߊߝߙߌߞߌ߬ ߕߟߋ߬ߓߐ
- N'Ko: ߕߟߋ߬ߓߐ ߊߝߙߌߞߌ߬
- Northern Frisian: Uastafrikoo
- Northern Sami: Nuorta-Afrihká
- Norwegian: Øst-Afrika
- Norwegian Bokmål: Øst-Afrika
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Aust-Afrika
- Occitan (post 1500): Africa de l'Èst
- Oromo: Baha Afrikaa
- Pampanga: Aslagan Africa
- Pampanga: Aslagan Aprika
- Panjabi: ਪੂਰਬੀ ਅਫ਼ਰੀਕਾ
- Pedi: Afrika Bohlabela
- Persian: شرق آفریقا
- Polish: Afryka Wschodnia
- Portuguese: África Oriental
- Pushto: ختيځه افريقا
- Romanian: Africa Răsăriteană
- Russian: Восточная Африка
- Santali: ᱥᱟᱢᱟᱝ ᱟᱯᱷᱨᱤᱠᱟ
- Sardinian: Àfrica Orientale
- Sardinian: Àfrica orientale
- Serbian: Источна Африка
- Serbo-Croatian: Istočna Afrika
- Shona: Afurika ye Mabvazuva
- Silesian: Weschodniŏ Afryka
- Skolt Sami: Nuõrtt-Afrikk
- Slovak: Východná Afrika
- Slovenian: Vzhodna Afrika
- Somali: Bariga Afrika
- South Azerbaijani: دوغو آفریقا
- Southern Sotho: Afrika Bohlabela
- Spanish: Africa Oriental
- Spanish: África Oriental
- Swahili: Afrika ya Mashariki
- Swedish: Östafrika
- Tagalog: Silangang Aprika
- Tajik: Африқои Шарқӣ
- Tamil: கிழக்கு ஆபிரிக்கா
- Tatar: Көнчыгыш Африка
- Thai: แอฟริกาตะวันออก
- Turkish: Doğu Afrika
- Turkmen: Gündogar Afrika
- Ukrainian: Східна Африка
- Urdu: مشرقی افریقا
- Urdu: مشرقی افریقہ
- Uzbek: Sharqiy Afrika
- Uzbek: Sharqiy afrika
- Venetian: Africa Orientałe
- Vietnamese: Đông Phi
- Waray (Philippines): Sinirangan nga Apriká
- Welsh: Dwyrain Affrica
- Western Frisian: East-Afrika
- Western Panjabi: چڑھدا افریقا
- Western Panjabi: چڑھدا افریقہ
- Wolof: Penku Afrig
- Wu Chinese: 東非
- Yakut: Илин Африка
- Yoruba: Ìlaòrùn Áfríkà
- Yue Chinese: 東非
- Afrikay Rocvetışi
- ڕۆژھەڵاتی ئەفریقا
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