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

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

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