Entity difference between fields defined in the entity itself and the external fields
The 'internal' fields are base fields, defined in the entity type definition. The 'external' fields are bundle fields, defined in configuration, which can be exported and imported to yaml, and is configurable in UI.

Content entities that have no bundles can have bundle fields, for example the user entity. In this case the id of the bundle is that of the entity.

More information https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/api/entity-api/introduction-to-entity-api-in-drupal-8, especially this chapter https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/api/entity-api/defining-and-using-content-entity-field-definitions.