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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. Defined in varying scopes, the region is recognized in the United Nations Statistics Division scheme as encompassing 18 sovereign states and 4 territories.
The ethnic groups of Africa number is in the thousands, with each population generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
Archaeological Sites in the region of Eastern Africa organized by country. Eastern Africa is defined as is by the UN (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, South Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Seychelles, and any islands off the coast). This category is meant only to ...
The East African Community ( EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation composed of eight countries in East Africa. The member states are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Federal Republic of Somalia, the Republics of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. [5] Salva Kiir Mayardit, the president of South Sudan, is the ...
Upper, Middle, Lower and Forest. Gold Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast and Pepper Coast. Rhodesia (region) ( Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia) Mayombe. The Congo Basin is the rainforest region. The Chad Basin The Chad Basin is the largest endorheic drainage basin in Africa, centered on Lake Chad. East African Rift.
Page dedicated to archaeological sites in Eastern Africa (as opposed to the study of Eastern African Archaeology itself). Eastern Africa is as defined by the UN (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, South Sudan, and Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda,Japan Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Seychelles, and any islands off the coast)).
The history of East Africa has been divided into its prehistory, the major polities flourishing, the colonial period, and the post-colonial period, in which the current nations were formed. East Africa is the eastern region of Africa, bordered by North Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the Sahara Desert.
Countries in the East Africa Region. Subcategories. This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total. ...