east africa

1. 1.

   a geographical area in eastern Africa

   Broadergeographical area

   Part ofAfrica

   PartsBurundiRwandaKenyaTanzaniaUganda

Questions about east africa

What does east africa mean?

east africa means "a geographical area in eastern Africa".

Is east africa a common word?

east africa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.