 Eritrea
Facts and Figures
Source: CIA World Factbook |
| Coordinates |
15 00 N, 39 00 E |
| Area |
total: 121,320 sq km land: 121,320 sq km water: 0 sq km |
| Climate |
hot, 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 |
| Terrain |
dominated 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 |
| Population |
4,906,585 (July 2007 est.) |
| Languages |
Afar, Arabic, Tigre and Kunama, Tigrinya, other Cushitic languages |
| Imports |
machinery, petroleum products, food, manufactured goods |
| Exports |
livestock, sorghum, textiles, food, small manufactures (2000) |
| Hazards |
frequent droughts; locust swarms |
| Resources |
gold, potash, zinc, copper, salt, possibly oil and natural gas, fish |
| Geography |
strategic geopolitical position along world's busiest shipping lanes; Eritrea retained the entire coastline of Ethiopia along the Red Sea upon de jure independence from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993 |
| Nationality |
noun: Eritrean(s) adjective: Eritrean |
| Capital |
name: Asmara (Asmera) geographic coordinates: 15 20 N, 38 53 E time difference: UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) |
| Internet Country Code |
.er |
| Internet Users |
70,000 (2005) |
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