East Africa

English

Proper noun

East Africa

2. A geographic region encompassing the eastern part of Africa, generally stretching from Ethiopia and Eritrea in the north to Mozambique and Zimbabwe in the south.
   • 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 March 2022:

     Similarly, Swahili evolved as the trading language in East Africa and is described as having an Arab vocabulary upon an African grammar.

Coordinate terms

• Central Africa
• North Africa
• Saharan Africa, Sahara
• Sahel
• Southern Africa
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• West Africa

Derived terms

• East Africa Time
• Italian East Africa
• German East Africa

Translations

eastern part of the continent of Africa

• Afrikaans: Oos-Afrika
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 東非 / 东非 (zh) (Dōngfēi), 東非洲 / 东非洲 (Dōng Fēizhōu)

• Danish: Østafrika
• Dinka: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: Oost-Afrika n
• Finnish: Itä-Afrikka (fi)
• French: Afrique Orientale
• Georgian: აღმოსავლეთი აფრიკა (aɣmosavleti apriḳa)
• German: Ostafrika (de) n
• Hungarian: Kelet-Afrika (hu)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 동아프리카 (dong'apeurika)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Øst-Afrika

  Nynorsk: Aust-Afrika

• Russian: Восто́чная А́фрика f (Vostóčnaja Áfrika)
• Spanish: África Oriental
• Swahili: Afrika ya Mashariki
• Swedish: Östafrika n
• Tamil: கிழக்கு ஆப்பிரிக்கா (ta) (kiḻakku āppirikkā)
• Vietnamese: Đông Phi (vi)