Countries That Start With E

8 countries Places Checked 9 Oct 2026

Countries that start with E: there are 8, namely Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia. This page counts the 193 United Nations member states plus the two UN observer states, and gives each country's capital, region, population and size.

E gives eight countries, and five of them are in Africa: Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea and Eswatini. Estonia is the lone European entry, and Ecuador and El Salvador represent the Americas.

A nice memory trick is that Ecuador takes its name from the equator. Some capitals are less familiar, such as Malabo for Equatorial Guinea and Lobamba for Eswatini. Unlike most letters, no capital city on the list starts with E, so the page is best used for country practice.

Countries starting with E: 8
Most people: Ethiopia 109.2 million
Largest by area: Ethiopia 1,104,300 km²

Countries that start with E

Country	Capital	Region	Population	Area
Ecuador	Quito	South America	17.1 million	276,841 km²
Egypt	Cairo	Northern Africa	98.4 million	1,002,450 km²
El Salvador	San Salvador	Central America	6.4 million	21,041 km²
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	Middle Africa	1.3 million	28,051 km²
Eritrea	Asmara	Eastern Africa	6.2 million	117,600 km²
Estonia	Tallinn	Northern Europe	1.3 million	45,227 km²
Eswatini	Lobamba	Southern Africa	1.1 million	17,364 km²
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Eastern Africa	109.2 million	1,104,300 km²

Their official names

Ecuador: Republic of Ecuador
Egypt: Arab Republic of Egypt
El Salvador: Republic of El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea: Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea: State of Eritrea
Estonia: Republic of Estonia
Eswatini: Kingdom of Eswatini
Ethiopia: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Countries that end with E

Belize
Cape Verde
Chile
France
Greece
Mozambique
Palestine
São Tomé and Príncipe
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Suriname
Timor-Leste
Türkiye
Ukraine
Zimbabwe

Big cities that start with E

City	Country	Population
Ecatepec de Morelos	Mexico	1.6 million
Erbil	Iraq	1.6 million
Edmonton	Canada	1.0 million
Esenyurt	Turkey	983,571
Enugu	Nigeria	950,000
Eskisehir	Turkey	921,630
Erzurum	Turkey	767,848
Evaton	South Africa	725,468
Edogawe	Japan	697,932
El Paso	United States	678,815
Ezhou	China	668,727
Essen	Germany	593,085

More cities that start with E

Questions people ask

How many countries start with E?

8 countries start with E: Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia.

Which country that starts with E has the most people?

Ethiopia, with about 109.2 million people in the GeoNames count.

What is the biggest country that starts with E?

By land area, Ethiopia is the largest at about 1,104,300 square kilometres.

Source: the 193 United Nations member states plus the two UN observer states (Vatican City and Palestine). Capitals, regions and land areas come from the open mledoze countries dataset; populations from the GeoNames database. Country names use common English short forms.

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