Eastern African Origin Place Names

This is a list of place names in which the origin is Eastern African.

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Buganda (Region & Political Subdivision) Ganda
The name of a region within Uganda and also the root of the country's name (see Uganda).

Comoras (Country) Spanish
Spanish form of Comoros.

Comore (Country) Italian
Italian form of Comoros.

Comoren (Country) Dutch
Dutch form of Comoros.

Comorerne (Country) Danish
Danish form of Comoros.

Comores (Country) French, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan
French, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan form of Comoros.

Comoros (Country) English
From French Comores, derived from Arabic qamar meaning "moon". This is the name of an island country off the eastern coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean.

Keňa (Country & Mountain) Czech, Slovak
Czech and Slovak form of Kenya.

Kenia (Country & Mountain) German, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Polish, Italian
Form of Kenya in several languages, as well as an Italian variant.

Kenija (Country & Mountain) Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Form of Kenya in several languages.

Keniya (Country & Mountain) Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian form of Kenya.

Kenya (Country & Mountain) English, Kikuyu, Swahili, French, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Greek, Turkish
The country is named for Mount Kenya, which in the Kikuyu language is called Kĩrĩnyaga meaning "the one having stripes".

Kĩrĩnyaga (Mountain) Kikuyu
Kikuyu form of Kenya (the mountain).

Komorai (Country) Lithuanian
Lithuanian form of Comoros.

Komoren (Country) German
German form of Comoros.

Komorene (Country) Norwegian
Norwegian form of Comoros.

Komorerna (Country) Swedish
Swedish form of Comoros.

Komores (Country) Greek
Greek form of Comoros.

Komori (Country) Comorian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian
Comorian form of Comoros, as well as the form in several other languages.

Komory (Country) Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Slovak
Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish and Slovak form of Comoros.

Oeganda (Country) Dutch
Dutch form of Uganda.

Ouganda (Country) French
French form of Uganda.

Quénia (Country & Mountain) Portuguese (European)
Portuguese form of Kenya.

Quênia (Country & Mountain) Portuguese (Brazilian)
Brazilian Portuguese form of Kenya.

Ravanda (Country) Hindi
Hindi form of Rwanda.

Rouanta (Country) Greek
Greek form of Rwanda.

Ruanda (Country) German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, English, French
Form of Rwanda in several languages, as well as a variant spelling in other languages.

Ruwanda (Country) Arabic
Arabic form of Rwanda.

Rwanda (Country) Rwandan, English, French, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Swahili
Of Kinyarwanda origin, of uncertain meaning. This is the name of a small landlocked country in central Africa.

Somali (Country) Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Mongolian
Form of Somalia in various languages.

Somalia (Country) English, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Albanian, Indonesian, Malay
From the ethnic name Somali, of uncertain meaning. The Somali people connect it to their mythical ancestor Samaale. Italian and British colonists applied the ethnic name to the Horn of Africa region in the 19th century. It became an independent country in 1960.

Somalie (Country) French
French form of Somalia.

Somalië (Country) Dutch
Dutch form of Somalia.

Somālija (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of Somalia.

Somalija (Country) Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene
Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian and Slovene form of Somalia.

Soomaaliya (Country) Somali
Somali form of Somalia.

Sumal (Country) Arabic
Arabic form of Somalia, usually written with the definite article: الصومال (al-Ṣūmāl).

Tanganyika (Region & Country) Swahili, English
From Swahili tanga "sail" and nyika "wilderness". This is the name of a region in East Africa. It was a German then British colony until 1961 when it gained independence. In 1964 it united with the island of Zanzibar to create the new country of Tanzania.

Tansaania (Country) Estonian
Estonian form of Tanzania.

Tansania (Country) German, Finnish
German and Finnish form of Tanzania.

Tanzánia (Country) Hungarian, Slovak
Hungarian and Slovak form of Tanzania.

Tanzânia (Country) Portuguese
Portuguese form of Tanzania.

Tanzania (Country) Swahili, English, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Armenian, Georgian, Indonesian, Malay
From a combination of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, the names of the two countries that were united to create the East African country of Tanzania in 1964.

Tanzanie (Country) French, Czech
French and Czech form of Tanzania.

Tanzanija (Country) Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian
Form of Tanzania in several languages.

Tanzaniya (Country) Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Uzbek
Form of Tanzania in several languages.

Tanzanya (Country) Arabic, Persian, Turkish
Arabic, Persian and Turkish form of Tanzania.

Uganda (Country) English, Ganda, Swahili, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay
From Buganda, the name of a kingdom within Uganda, which means "land of the Ganda" in the Luganda language. The Ganda are an ethnic group, their name possibly deriving from a Bantu word meaning "family". Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa.

Ughanda (Country) Arabic
Arabic form of Uganda.

Yuganda (Country) Ganda
Luganda variant form of Uganda.