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I need the list of countries of Eastern Africa

With the capital cities , vegetation & climate, natural resources and principal languages spoken of each country listed.

Copied and pasted is fine but has to be correct.

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East Africa consist of numerous countries, all of which are listed below:

• Burundi- with the city of   Bujumbura as it’s capital. It is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa, bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. It is also considered part of Central Africa marked by equatorial climate. Burundi is a part of the Albertine Rift, the western extension of the East African Rift and receives water from the Nile which originates in the district of Bururi, Lake Victoria And Lake Tangyanka. Burundi's lands are mostly agricultural or pasture. Kirundi, French and English are the major languages that are spoken.
• Comoros: It is located  in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar. The capital and largest city in Comoros is Moroni. It has three official languages—Comorian, Arabic and French. It is one of the smallest countries in the world made up of four islands in the Indian Ocean. The interiors of the islands vary from steep mountains to low hills.

  Ngazidja is the largest of the Comoros Archipelago,It is also the most recent island, and therefore has rocky soil. The island has two volcanoes, Karthala (active) and La Grille (dormant), The islands of the Comoros Archipelago were formed by volcanic activities.

• Djibouti- The country is located in the Horn of Africa. The capital city is Djibouti City.It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east. Afar is the national language and Somali, Arabic and French are the country's three official languages.
  It serves as a key refuelling and transshipment center and has many international military bases, and is the principal maritime port for imports from and exports to neighbouring Ethiopia.The terrain consists mainly of plateau, plains and highlands.

  Djibouti has eight mountain ranges with peaks .The Grand Bara desert covers parts of southern Djibouti in the Arta, Ali Sabieh and Dikhil regions. Most of Djibouti is part of the Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands ecoregion. The exception is an eastern strip located along the Red Sea coast, which is part of the Eritrean coastal desert.

  
  Eritrea- it is a country in the Horn of Africa, with its capital at Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive coastline along the Red Sea. Recognised national languages include Tigrinya, Standard Arabic, Tigre, Sudanese Arabic, Kunama, Saho, Bilen, Nara, Afar[2], Hejazi Bedouin Arabic, and Italian. It has a sandy and arid coastline bisected by a branch of the East African Rift. It has fertile lands to the west, descending to desert in the east. Natural vegetationhere vary from the sub-tropical rainforest at Filfil Solomona to the precipitous cliffs and canyons of the southern highlands. The Afar Triangle or Danakil Depression of Eritrea is the probable location of a triple junction where three tectonic plates are pulling away from one another.

  
  Ethiopia- is a country in the Horn of Africa that shares borders with Eritrea to the north and northeast, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second-most populous nation on the African continent. its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa. Ethiopia is a multilingual nation with around 80 ethnolinguistic groups, the four largest of which are the Oromo, Amhara, Somali and Tigrayans. Most people in the country speak Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches. In the southern region, Omotic languages are spoken by ethnic minority groups and the Nilotic minority speak Nilo-Saharan languages.
  The landscape is one of natural contrasts, with its vast fertile west, its forests, and numerous rivers, and the world's hottest settlement of Dallol in its north. The Ethiopian Highlands are the largest continuous mountain ranges in Africa, and the Sof Omar Caves contains the largest cave on the continent.

  Kenya- the capital and largest city is Nairobi. Kenya lies on the equator and overlies the East African Rift, and covers a diverse and expansive terrain that extends roughly from Lake Victoria to Lake Turkana and further south-east to the Indian Ocean. It is bordered by Tanzania to the south and south-west, Uganda to the west, South Sudan to the north-west, Ethiopia to the north and Somalia to the north-east. It has a variety of climates, including a warm and humid coastline, temperate savannah grasslands in the interior, temperate and forested hilly areas in the west, arid and semi-arid areas near the Somali border and Lake Turkana, and an Equatorial climate around Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical freshwater lake. There is an abundance of flora and fauna, many of which are protected by wildlife reserves and national parks, such as the East and West Tsavo National Park, Maasai Mara National Park, etc. The country is the birthplace of the modern safari. Swahili is the national language.

  Madagascar- it is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa. It was formed as a split from the Indian peninsula around 88 million years ago Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Official languages include Malagasy and French. Capital
  and largest city is Antananarivo
  Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; over 90% of its wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth. Along the length of the eastern coast runs a narrow and steep escarpment containing much of the island's remaining tropical lowland forest.To the west of this ridge lies a plateau in the center of the island characterized by terraced, rice-growing valleys lying between grassy hills and patches of the subhumid forests that formerly covered the highland region. To the west of the highlands, the increasingly arid terrain gradually slopes down to the Mozambique Channel and mangrove swamps along the coast.

  Malawi- is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. It’s capital city is
  Lake Malawi takes up about a third of Malawi's area. Its capital is Lilongwe.
  Recognised national languages are English and Chichewa. The Great Rift Valley runs through the country from north to south, and to the east of the valley lies Lake Malawi (a), making up over three-quarters of Malawi's eastern boundary. The Shire River flows from the south end of the lake and joins the Zambezi River 400 kilometres farther south in Mozambique. The vegetation include tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands of the miombo woodland, dominated by miombo trees; and the Zambezian and mopane woodlands, characterized by the mopane tree; and also flooded grassland providing grassland and swamp vegetation.

  Mauritius- is an island nation in the Indian Oceanoff the southeast coast of the African continent. The country includes the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, and the outer islands (Agaléga, St. Brandon and two disputed territories). The capital and largest city is Port Louis. English, French, Creole and Bhojpuri are the major languages. These islands have emerged as a result of gigantic underwater volcanic eruptions that happened thousands of kilometres to the east of the continental block made up of Africa and Madagascar. Mauritius is encircled by a broken ring of mountain ranges and has several streams and rivers which add to the rich tropical forests. Situated near the Tropic of Capricorn, Mauritius has a typically tropical climate in the coastal regions with forests in the mountainous areas. Seasonal cyclones are destructive to its flora and fauna, although they recover quickly. Mauritius ranked second in an air quality index released by the World Health Organization in 2011.

  
  Mozambique- it is a country in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Swaziland (Eswatini) and South Africa to the southwest. It is separated from the Comoros, Mayotte and Madagascar by the Mozambique Channel to the east. The capital of Mozambique is Maputo. Swahili and Portuguese, Makhuwa, Sena are the major languages used here. It has a tropical climate. The country is divided into two topographical regions by the Zambezi River. To the north of the Zambezi River, the narrow coastal strip gives way to inland hills and low plateaus covered with miombo woodlands. The country is drained by five principal rivers and several smaller ones with the largest and most important the Zambezi.

  Rwanda- it is located in Central and East Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwanda is in the African Great Lakes region and is highly elevated; its geography is dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the east, with numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate to subtropical, with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons each year. The entire country is at a high altitude and It lies a few degrees south of the equator and is landlocked. The major drainage system for the rivers in Rwanda is the Nile basin. The capital city is Kigali and the Official languages Are English, French, Kinyarwanda and Swahili.

  Seychelles- is an archipelago and sovereign state in the Indian Ocean. The capital is in Victoria. Other nearby island countries and territories include Comoros, Mayotte (region of France), Madagascar, Réunion (region of France) and Mauritius to the south. it has the smallest population of any sovereign African country. Creole, French and English are the major languages in use.
  The country is made up of 115 islands which are granite-based islands known as the Granitic Seychelles, Or coral sand cays. Most of the islands comprise of forest reserves and are not populated. The climate is quite humid, and the ecosystem is one of tropical rainforests.

  Somalia- it is located in the Horn of Africa with Mogadishu as the capital city. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Guardafui Channel and Indian Ocean to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. It is separated from Socotra by the Guardafui Channel in the northeast. Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland,[10] and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands. Climatically, hot conditions prevail year-round, with periodic monsoon winds and irregular rainfall. Somali and Arabic are the major languages in use.

  Tanzania- Tanzania is situated in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Kenya and Uganda to the north; Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south; and the Indian Ocean to the east. Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is in north-eastern Tanzania. Tanzania is mountainous and densely forested in the north-east, where Mount Kilimanjaro is located. Three of Africa's Great Lakes are partly within Tanzania: including Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, and Lake Tanganyika, the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish. The eastern shore is hot and humid, with the Zanzibar Archipelago just offshore. Tanzania is linguistically diverse with English and Swahili as the popular and official languages. Dar es Salaam is the capital and the largest city.

  Uganda- it is a landlocked country (except for bordering a lake) in East-Central Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region. Uganda also lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied but generally a modified equatorial climate. The official languages are English and Swahili, although Luganda, a central language, is widely spoken across the country, and several other languages are also spoken including Runyoro, Runyankole, Rukiga, and Luo. Kampala is the capital cit.

  Zambia- Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa[8] (although some sources prefer to consider it part of the region of east Africa[9]), neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique to the southeast, Zimbabwe and Botswana to the south, Namibia to the southwest, and Angola to the west. The capital city is Lusaka, in the south-central part of Zambia. While English is the official language, the linguistic heritage of Zambia is enriched by several regional languages including Bemba, Nyanja, Tonga and Lozi among several others. with a tropical climate, and consisting mostly of high plateaus with some hills and mountains, dissected by river valleys, it is the 39th-largest country in the world, slightly smaller than Chile. Zambia is drained by two major river basins: the Zambezi/Kafue basin and the Congo basin.

  Zimbabwe- the Republic of Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Harare.It has 16 official languages with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most commonly used. Most of the country is elevated, consisting of a central plateau stretching from the southwest northwards. The country's extreme east is mountainous, known as the Eastern Highlands, with Mount Nyangani as the highest point. Victoria Falls, one of the world's biggest waterfalls, is located here.