The Eastern Province is one of the four provinces of Sierra Leone . It covers an area of 15,553 km and has a population of 1,641,012 (2015 census ). Its capital and administrative centre is Kenema . Eastern Province, the centre of the country's diamond mining industry, is very mountainous and has two ranges, the Gola Hills and the Loma Mountains.
8-689: [REDACTED] Look up Eastern Province in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eastern Province and East Province may refer to the following places: Eastern Province, Afghanistan Eastern Province, Cameroon Eastern Province, Cundinamarca , Venezuela Eastern Province, Rwanda Eastern Province (Kenya) Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (Al Sharqiyah) Eastern Province, Sierra Leone Eastern Cape , South Africa Eastern Province cricket team Eastern Province, Sri Lanka Eastern Province, Zambia Eastern Province (Victoria) ,
16-566: A former electorate in the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia) Khorasan (Eastern Province of Iran) Roman and Byzantine Greece Greece as an eastern province of Roman Empire Purvanchal ( lit. ' eastern province/region ' ), a region of India See also [ edit ] Eastern Region (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
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32-483: Is the heart of Sierra Leone 's diamond mining activity. The precious stone was first discovered in around the 1930s, and has played a major part in the region's history ever since. Most diamonds are mined and exported by small local enterprises, numbering around 200,000 to 300,000; some of these are illegal, while many are officially sanctioned. Additionally, there are a handful of foreign countries carrying out larger scale diamond mining. The Eastern Province borders
40-724: The Nzérékoré Region of Guinea to the northeast, the Liberian counties of Lofa , Gbarpolu and Grand Cape Mount to the east and south, and the Sierra Leonian Southern and Northern provinces to the west and northwest. Eastern Province is the only region of Sierra Leone without any shoreline. The province is home to the Gola Hills , a tract of rainforest with fauna including chimpanzees , western red colobus , many endemic species of bird , and
48-614: The 💕 [REDACTED] Look up Eastern Province in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eastern Province and East Province may refer to the following places: Eastern Province, Afghanistan Eastern Province, Cameroon Eastern Province, Cundinamarca , Venezuela Eastern Province, Rwanda Eastern Province (Kenya) Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (Al Sharqiyah) Eastern Province, Sierra Leone Eastern Cape , South Africa Eastern Province cricket team Eastern Province, Sri Lanka Eastern Province, Zambia Eastern Province (Victoria) ,
56-520: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eastern_Province&oldid=1148209754 " Categories : Place name disambiguation pages Province name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Eastern Province From Misplaced Pages,
64-538: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eastern_Province&oldid=1148209754 " Categories : Place name disambiguation pages Province name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Eastern Province, Sierra Leone The Eastern Province
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