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East Point

(Encyclopedia)East Point, city (2020 pop. 34,879), Fulton co., NW Ga., an industrial suburb of Atlanta; inc. 1887. Textiles, machinery, chemicals, and paper are among...

East Providence

(Encyclopedia)East Providence, city (2020 pop. 47,139), Providence co., E R.I., on the Providence and Seekonk rivers; inc. as a city 1958. Manufactures include metal ...

East Prussia

(Encyclopedia)East Prussia, Ger. Ostpreussen, former province of Prussia, extreme NE Germany. The region of East Prussia has low rolling hills that are heavily wooded, and it is dotted by many lakes (especially in ...

East Ridge

(Encyclopedia)East Ridge, town (2020 pop. 22,167), Hamilton co., SE Tenn., a suburb of Chattanooga, near the Ga. border; inc. 1921. It is chiefly residential. ...

East River

(Encyclopedia)East River, tidal strait, 16 mi (26 km) long and 600–4,000 ft (183–1,219 m) wide, connecting Upper New York Bay and Long Island Sound, New York City, and separating the boroughs of Manhattan and t...

East Rockaway

(Encyclopedia)East Rockaway, village (2020 pop. 10,159), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on SW Long Island; settled c.1688, inc. 1900. It is mostly residential with some light m...

East Sea

(Encyclopedia)East Sea: see Japan, Sea of.

East Suffolk

(Encyclopedia)East Suffolk, England: see Suffolk. ...

East Sussex

(Encyclopedia)East Sussex, county, 693 sq mi (1,795 sq km), extreme SE England. It comprises five administrative districts: Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Rother, and W...

East Turkistan

(Encyclopedia)East Turkistan: see Xinjiang.