Entries starting with E
- Ecuador: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsEcuador is an equator-straddling South American nation of Andean peaks, Amazon rainforest, Pacific coast, and the Galapagos Islands, birthplace of Darwin's theory of evolution.
- Edinburgh: Scotland’s Historic CapitalEdinburgh is the capital of Scotland, built around the volcanic Castle Rock, known for its castle, Old and New Towns, and arts festivals.
- Egypt: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsEgypt is a northeastern African nation along the Nile, home to the pyramids of Giza and the Suez Canal.
- El NinoEl Nino is the warm phase of a tropical Pacific climate pattern that shifts weather around the world.
- El Salvador: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsEl Salvador is the smallest, most densely populated country in mainland Central America, known for its volcanoes and Pacific coast.
- EncryptionEncryption scrambles data using a secret key, so that only someone holding the right key can turn it back into readable information.
- Endangered languageAn endangered language is one whose community has begun passing a more dominant language to its children instead.
- EpistemologyEpistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies knowledge: what it is, where it comes from and how much of it we can have.
- Equatorial Guinea: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsEquatorial Guinea is a small, oil-rich Central African nation and the only African country with Spanish as an official language.
- Eritrea: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsEritrea is a Red Sea nation in the Horn of Africa whose capital, Asmara, is a UNESCO-listed showcase of Italian modernist architecture.
- ErosionErosion is the wearing away of the land surface by water, wind, ice or gravity, and the removal of the loosened material elsewhere.
- Estonia: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsEstonia is the northernmost Baltic state, known for Tallinn's medieval Old Town and its leadership in digital government.
- Eswatini: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsEswatini is a small, landlocked Southern African kingdom, one of the world's last absolute monarchies, renamed from Swaziland in 2018.
- Ethiopia: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsEthiopia is a Horn of Africa nation never colonized by Europe, home to the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela.
- EutrophicationEutrophication is the enrichment of water by excess nutrients, mainly nitrogen and phosphorus, which triggers heavy algae growth and oxygen loss.
- Exchange rateAn exchange rate is the price of one currency in terms of another, for example how many Japanese yen one euro will buy.
- Executive orderAn executive order is a numbered written directive from the US president telling federal agencies how to act, within powers granted by law.
- Export controlsExport controls are government rules that require a licence before certain goods, software or technology may be sent abroad.