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Eritrea

Africa

State of Eritrea

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📍 Essential Info

CapitalAsmara

TimezoneUTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)

Population6.4M

LanguagesTigrinya (official), Arabic (official), English (official), Tigre, Kunama, Afar, other Cushitic languages

Governmentauthoritarian

🔌 Practical Info

Driving SideRight

Electrical PlugsVaries

Internet Code.er

Internet Users20%

GDP per Capita$700

🌍 Geography

LocationEastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan

Size Comparisonslightly smaller than Pennsylvania

Climatehot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually, heaviest June to September); semiarid in western hills and lowlands

Terraindominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains

👥 People & Culture

Ethnic GroupsTigrinya 50%, Tigre 30%, Saho 4%, Afar 4%, Kunama 4%, Bilen 3%, Hedareb/Beja 2%, Nara 2%, Rashaida 1% (2021 est.)

ReligionsEritrean Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran, Sunni Muslim

Median Age21.7 years

Life Expectancy67.5 years

National HolidayIndependence Day, 24 May (1991)

Cultural Information

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Data sourced from the CIA World Factbook