Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Definition of East Africa Region

There has been a raging debate with some people on what constitutes the East Africa region.

1. Due to colonial territories of the British East Africa Protectorate and German East Africa, the term East Africa is often (especially in the English language ) used to specifically refer to the area now comprising the three countries of Kenya Uganda and Tanzania. This strictly colonial use is dated however, and most organizations have a wider meaning to the term.

2. The East Africa Community is a regional federation of Kenya Uganda Tanzania Rwanda and Burundi.

3. Following is the map of UN East Africa sub-region.



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Eastern-Africa-map.PNG

4. As per Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings of UN, East Africa refers to :

Numerical code

   Geographical region and composition of each region

002

Africa a/

014Eastern Africa
108Burundi
174Comoros
262Djibouti
232Eritrea
231Ethiopia
404Kenya
450Madagascar
454Malawi
480Mauritius
175Mayotte
508Mozambique
638Réunion
646Rwanda
690Seychelles
706Somalia
728South Sudan
800Uganda
834United Republic of Tanzania
894Zambia
716Zimbabwe

Refer http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm

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