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  2. East Africa - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. East African Rift - Wikipedia

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    A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate and two parts of the African Plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...

  4. File:Tectonical map of East Africa.png - Wikipedia

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    English: Map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes(red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded, center) -- a so-called triple junction (or triple point), where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate, and the two parts of the African Plate (the Nubian and the Somali) splitting along the East African Rift Zone.

  5. Geography of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Africa. Africa is a continent comprising 63 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth 's surface. [1] Within its regular outline, it comprises an area of 30,368,609 km 2 (11,725,385 sq mi), excluding adjacent islands. Its highest mountain is Kilimanjaro; its ...

  6. History of East Africa - Wikipedia

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    History of East Africa. 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 ...

  7. Geography of Rwanda - Wikipedia

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    Rwanda is located in East Africa, to the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the co-ordinates 2°00′S 30°0′E. At 26,338 square kilometres (10,169 sq mi), Rwanda is the world's 149th-largest country. [2] It is comparable in size to Haiti or the state of Massachusetts in the United States. [3][4] The entire country is at a high ...

  8. East African Plateau - Wikipedia

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    The East African Plateau is a large plateau in the eastern part of central Africa in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Its elevation is mostly between 1000 and 1500 meters. It is subdivided into a number of zones running north and south and consisting in turn of mountain ranges, tablelands, and rift valleys. The most striking feature is the existence ...

  9. File:Map of East African countries.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:Map of East African countries.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 512 × 516 pixels. Other resolutions: 238 × 240 pixels | 476 × 480 pixels | 762 × 768 pixels | 1,016 × 1,024 pixels | 2,032 × 2,048 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.

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