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East Chicago

(Encyclopedia)East Chicago, city (2020 pop. 26,370), Lake co., extreme NW Ind., on Lake Michigan, in the industrialized Calumet region, ad...

East Cleveland

(Encyclopedia)East Cleveland, city (2020 pop. 13,792), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland; inc. 1911. Mostly residential, it has some declining light indust...

East Detroit

(Encyclopedia)East Detroit, Mich.: see Eastpointe. ...

East Flanders

(Encyclopedia)East Flanders, Du. Oost-Vlaanderen ōst-vlänˈdərən [key], Fr. Flandre Orientale, prov...

East Friesland

(Encyclopedia)East Friesland frēzˈlənd [key], Ger. Ostfriesland, region and former duchy, c.1,100 sq mi (2,850 sq km), Lower Saxony, NW Germany, on the North Sea. It includes the East Frisian Islands and is sepa...

East Germany

(Encyclopedia)East Germany: see Germany.

East Hartford

(Encyclopedia)East Hartford, urban town (2020 pop. 51,045), Hartford co., central Conn., on the Connecticut River opposite Hartford; settled c.1640, inc. 1783. East H...

East Haven

(Encyclopedia)East Haven, town (2020 pop. 27,923, New Haven co., S Conn., on Long Island Sound, a residential suburb of New Haven, in a farm area; inc. 1785. Light in...

East Indies

(Encyclopedia)East Indies, name formerly used for the Malay Archipelago, but also more restrictively for Indonesia and more widely to include SE Asia. It once referred chiefly to India. ...

East Kilbride

(Encyclopedia)East Kilbride kĭlbrīdˈ [key], town, South Lanarkshire, S central Scotland. Established in 1946 ...