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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. List of cities in East Africa - Wikipedia

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    Former Capital Great Lakes Region: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Dire Dawa Ethiopia: 607,321 2008 [citation needed] Horn of Africa: Dire Dawa, Ethiopia: Djibouti City Djibouti: 475,322 2009 Capital Horn of Africa: Djibouti City, Djibouti: Dodoma Tanzania: 410,956 2012 Capital Great Lakes Region: Dodoma, Tanzania: Gitega Burundi: 125,989 2019 [7 ...

  4. Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    Tanzania, [b] officially the United Republic of Tanzania, [c] is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.

  5. Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa. With a population of more than 47.6 million in the 2019 census, [12] Kenya is the 28th-most-populous country in the world [7] and 7th most populous in Africa. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi, while its oldest and second-largest city, is ...

  6. Uganda - Wikipedia

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    Uganda is located in southeast Africa between 1º S and 4º N latitude, and between 30º E and 35º E longitude. Its geography is very diverse, consisting of volcanic hills, mountains, and lakes. The country sits at an average of 900 meters above sea level. Both the eastern and western borders of Uganda have mountains.

  7. Burundi - Wikipedia

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    The capital city is Gitega and the largest city is Bujumbura. [14] The Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent kingdom. In 1885, it became part of the German colony of German East Africa. [15]

  8. Horn of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Population. 140,683,144 (2020 est.) Area. 1,882,757 km 2. The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, [2][3][4] is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa. [5] Located on the easternmost part of the African mainland, it is the fourth largest peninsula in the world.

  9. Kigali - Wikipedia

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    International coaches run from Nyabugogo to other destinations in East Africa. Until 2019, this included the Ugandan capital Kampala, which was reached either via Gatuna and Kabale or via Kagitumba. [242] [243] The journey via Gatuna on the overnight service takes around ten hours. [242] Some Kampala services continued to Nairobi in Kenya. [244]