Eritrea

Eritrea is a country in . Formerly an Italian colony, the country shares a common language and culture with its large neighbour, , which it was once a part of until Eritrea gained its independence in 1993.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Asmara and Massawa.
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The Eritrean capital of is a vibrant mix of Italian and African architecture and culture.
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or Mitsiwa is a port city in the…
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Sitting in the picturesque foothills of northern…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Nakfa and Senafe.
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is a town in Eritrea.
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is a market town in southern Eritrea, on the edge of the Eritrean Highlands ሶይራ.
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is a in Eritrea.
is a in the Northern Red Sea Region of Eritrea.

Eritrea

  • Country with about 3,500,000 residents
  • …has as its capital
  • …uses the Nakfa (ERN)
  • …has the phone code 291
  • …uses the internet domain .er
  • …covers 121,320 km² (46,842 miles²)
  • Description: country in the Horn of Africa
  • Also known as
    “er”
    “Erithrea”
    “Ēritra”
    “Ertrā”
    “Erythraia”
    “Iritriyā”
    “State of Eritrea”
    “ኤርትራ Eritrea إرتريا”
  • Languages
    Afar
    Arabic
    Tigre
    Kunama
    Tigrinya
  • Neighbors
  • Categories
    sovereign state
    locality
  • Location
  • View on Open­Street­Map
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Latitude of center
15.3° or 15° 18′ north
Longitude of center
39.11° or 39° 6′ 36″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424316022
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
338010
Wiki­data ID
Q986

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Eritrea” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Еритреиа аҳәынҭқарра”
  • Abkhazian: “Еритреиа”
  • Achinese: “Eritrea”
  • Adyghe: “Эритрее”
  • Afar: “Eretria”
  • Afrikaans: “Eritrea”
  • Akan: “Ɛritrea”
  • Albanian: “Eritre”
  • Albanian: “Eritrea”
  • Amharic: “ኤርትራ”
  • Amis: “Eritrea”
  • Angika: “इरीट्रिया”
  • Arabic: “إرتريا”
  • Arabic: “ارتيريا”
  • Arabic: “اريتريا”
  • Arabic: “دولة إرتريا”
  • Arabic: “دولة إريتريا”
  • Aragonese: “Eritrea”
  • Armenian: “Էրիթրեա”
  • Arpitan: “Èritrê”
  • Assamese: “এৰিত্ৰিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Eritrea”
  • Azerbaijani: “Eritreya”
  • Balinese: “Éritréa”
  • Bambara: “Eritere”
  • Bambara: “Eritrea”
  • Banjar: “Eritrea”
  • Banjar: “Irtra”
  • Bashkir: “Эритрея”
  • Basque: “Eritrea”
  • Bavarian: “Eritrea”
  • Belarusian: “Эрытрэя”
  • Bengali: “ইরিট্রিয়া”
  • Bengali: “ইরিত্রিয়া”
  • Bengali: “এরিট্রিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Èritréa”
  • Bhojpuri: “इरीट्रिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “ইরিত্রিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Eritrea”
  • Bosnian: “Eritreja”
  • Breton: “Eritrea”
  • Bulgarian: “Еритрея”
  • Burmese: “အီရီထရီးယား”
  • Burmese: “အီရီထရီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Eritrea”
  • Catalan: “Estat d’Eritrea”
  • Cebuano: “Eritrea”
  • Cebuano: “Eritreya”
  • Central Bikol: “Eritreya”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێریتریا”
  • Chavacano: “Eritrea”
  • Chechen: “Эритре”
  • Chechen: “Эритрей”
  • Chinese: “Èlìtèlǐyà”
  • Chinese: “厄利垂亞”
  • Chinese: “厄特”
  • Chinese: “厄立特里亚 / 厄利垂亞”
  • Chinese: “厄立特里亚”
  • Chinese: “厄立特里亞”
  • Church Slavic: “Єрѷѳрїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Эритрея”
  • Cornish: “Eritrea”
  • Cornish: “Erytrea”
  • Corsican: “Eritrea”
  • Corsican: “Statu di l’Eritrea”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Eritreya”
  • Croatian: “Eritreja”
  • Czech: “Eritrea”
  • Dagbani: “Eritrea”
  • Danish: “Eritrea”
  • Dhivehi: “އެރިތުރިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Eritreya”
  • Dinka: “Eriteria”
  • Dotyali: “इरिट्रया”
  • Dutch: “Eritrea”
  • Dutch: “Staat Eritrea”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨེ་རི་ཊྲེ་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Эритрей”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اريتريا”
  • Esperanto: “Eritreo”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Eritreo”
  • Estonian: “Eritrea Riik”
  • Estonian: “Eritrea”
  • Ewe: “Eritrea nutome”
  • Ewe: “Eritrea”
  • Extremaduran: “Eritrea”
  • Farefare: “Eritrea”
  • Faroese: “Eritrea”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Eritrea”
  • Finnish: “Eritrea”
  • Finnish: “Eritrean valtio”
  • Fon: “Érythréetò”
  • French: “Érythrée”
  • French: “État d’Érythrée”
  • Fulah: “Eriteree”
  • Fulah: “Eritereya”
  • Gagauz: “Eritreya”
  • Galician: “Eritrea”
  • Ganda: “Eritrea”
  • Ganda: “Eritureya”
  • Georgian: “ერიტრეა”
  • German: “Eritrea”
  • German: “Iritriyyā”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Eritrea”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ertrā”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Iritriyā”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “State of Eritrea”
  • Gilaki: “اريتره”
  • Goan Konkani: “इरिट्रिया”
  • Goan Konkani: “एरिट्रिया”
  • Greek: “Ερυθραία”
  • Greek: “Κράτος της Ερυθραίας”
  • Guarani: “Erityréa”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Éritré”
  • Gujarati: “એરિટ્રિયા”
  • Haitian: “Eritre”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Eritrea”
  • Hausa: “Eritireya”
  • Hausa: “Eritrea”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻElikilea”
  • Hebrew: “אריטראה”
  • Hebrew: “אריתרה”
  • Hebrew: “אריתריאה”
  • Hindi: “इरिट्रिया”
  • Hindi: “इरित्रिया”
  • Hindi: “एरीत्रिया”
  • Hungarian: “Eritrea”
  • Icelandic: “Erítrea”
  • Ido: “Eritrea”
  • Igala: “Eritrea”
  • Igbo: “Eritrea”
  • Iloko: “Eritrea”
  • Inari Sami: “Eritrea staatâ”
  • Inari Sami: “Eritrea”
  • Indonesian: “Eritrea”
  • Interlingua: “Eritrea”
  • Interlingue: “Eritréa”
  • Irish: “An Eiritré”
  • Irish: “Eritrea”
  • Italian: “Eritrea”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Erichria”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Erichriya”
  • Japanese: “エリトリア”
  • Japanese: “エリトリア国”
  • Japanese: “エリトレア”
  • Javanese: “Éritréa”
  • Jju: “A̱ritreya”
  • Kabiyè: “Eriitree”
  • Kabyle: “Iritirya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Eritrea”
  • Kalmyk: “Эритреймудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಎರಿಟ್ರಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಏರಿಟ್ರಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Eritreya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Эритрея”
  • Karekare: “Eritariya”
  • Kashmiri: “اِرٕٹِیا”
  • Kashmiri: “اِریترٛیا”
  • Kazakh: “Эритрея”
  • Khmer: “អេរីត្រេ”
  • Khmer: “អេរីទ្រា”
  • Kikuyu: “Eritrea”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Eritereya”
  • Kirghiz: “Эритрея”
  • Komering: “Eritrea”
  • Kongo: “Eritrea”
  • Korean: “에리트레아”
  • Korean: “에리트리아”
  • Kotava: “Ertra”
  • Kurdish: “Erîtrea”
  • Kurdish: “ئەریتریا”
  • Ladin: “Eritrea”
  • Ladino: “Eritrea”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດອິຣີເຕຣຍ”
  • Lao: “ເອຣິເທຣຍ”
  • Latin: “Erythraea”
  • Latvian: “Eritreja”
  • Ligurian: “Eritrea”
  • Limburgan: “Eritrea”
  • Lingala: “Elitelɛ”
  • Lingala: “Elitré”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Ertra”
  • Literary Chinese: “厄利垂亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Eritrėja”
  • Livvi: “Eritrei”
  • Lombard: “Eritrea”
  • Low German: “Eritrea”
  • Low German: “Ståt Eritrea”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Eritreja”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Elitele”
  • Lule Sami: “Eritredja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Eritrea”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Eritrea”
  • Macedonian: “Еритреја”
  • Madurese: “Eritrea”
  • Maithili: “एरिट्रिया”
  • Malagasy: “Eritrea”
  • Malay: “Eritrea”
  • Malayalam: “എരിട്രിയ”
  • Malayalam: “എറിത്രിയ”
  • Maltese: “Eritrea”
  • Maltese: “Eritreja”
  • Maltese: “l-Eritrea”
  • Maltese: “l-Istat tal-Eritrea”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯔꯤꯇ꯭ꯔꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Eritrea”
  • Maori: “Eritēria”
  • Marathi: “इरिट्रिया”
  • Marathi: “एरिट्रिया”
  • Mazanderani: “اریتره”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “ارتريا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Eritrea”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Eritrea”
  • Minangkabau: “Eritrea”
  • Mingrelian: “ერიტრეა”
  • Mirandese: “Eritréia”
  • Moksha: “Эритрэя”
  • Mon: “အဳရဳထရဳယျာ”
  • Mongolian: “Эритрей”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إريتيريا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إيريطيريا”
  • Mossi: “Eritrea”
  • Nauru: “Eritrea”
  • Navajo: “Tónteel Łichííʼí Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Eritrea”
  • Nepali: “इरित्रिया”
  • Nepali: “एरिट्रिया”
  • Newari: “इरिट्रिया”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Eritrea”
  • North Ndebele: “Eritrea”
  • Northern Frisian: “Eritrea”
  • Northern Luri: “اریتره”
  • Northern Sami: “Eritrea stáhta”
  • Northern Sami: “Eritrea”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eritrea”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Staten Eritrea”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eritrea”
  • Norwegian: “Eritrea”
  • Novial: “Eritrea”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Eritea”
  • Obolo: “Eritireya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Eritrèa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Æriþrea”
  • Oriya: “ଇରିଟ୍ରିଆ”
  • Oriya: “ଇରିଟ୍ରିୟା”
  • Oromo: “Eeritiraa”
  • Oromo: “Eritrea”
  • Ossetian: “Эритрей”
  • Pali: “एरिट्रिया”
  • Pampanga: “Eritrea”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਰੀਟ੍ਰਿਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਰੀਤਰੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Eritrea”
  • Pedi: “Eritrea”
  • Persian: “اریتره”
  • Persian: “اریتریا”
  • Piemontese: “Eritrea”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Eritreya”
  • Polish: “Erytrea”
  • Portuguese: “Eritréia”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Eritreia”
  • Pushto: “اریتره”
  • Pushto: “اېريتريا”
  • Quechua: “Eritrea”
  • Quechua: “Iritriya”
  • Romanian: “Eritrea”
  • Romanian: “Eritreea”
  • Romansh: “Eritrea”
  • Rundi: “Elitereya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эритрей”
  • Russian: “Государство Эритрея”
  • Russian: “Эритрея”
  • Sakizaya: “Eritrea”
  • Samoan: “Eritrea”
  • Samogitian: “Eritrėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Eritriejė”
  • Sango: “Eritrëe”
  • Sanskrit: “इरीट्रिया”
  • Santali: “ᱮᱨᱤᱛᱨᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “اریٹریا”
  • Sardinian: “Eritrea”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Eritrea”
  • Scots: “Eritrea”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eartra”
  • Serbian: “Eritreja”
  • Serbian: “Еритреа”
  • Serbian: “Еритреја”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Eritreja”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဢႄႇရီႇထရီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Eriteriya”
  • Shona: “Eritrea”
  • Sicilian: “Eritria”
  • Silesian: “Erytryja”
  • Sindhi: “اريٽيريا”
  • Sindhi: “ايريٽيريا”
  • Sinhala: “එරිත්‍රියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Eritrea riikk”
  • Skolt Sami: “Eritrea valdia”
  • Skolt Sami: “Eritrea”
  • Slovak: “Eritrea”
  • Slovak: “Eritrejský štát”
  • Slovenian: “Eritreja”
  • Somali: “Eratareya”
  • Somali: “Eritreeya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اریتره”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Eritrea”
  • Southern Sotho: “Eritrea”
  • Spanish: “Eritrea”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Eritrea”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵔⵉⵜⵔⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Éritréa”
  • Swahili: “Eritrea”
  • Swati: “IRitheya”
  • Swedish: “Eritrea”
  • Swedish: “Staten Eritrea”
  • Swiss German: “Eritrea”
  • Tachelhit: “Eritrea”
  • Tachelhit: “Iritriyya”
  • Tagalog: “Eritrea”
  • Tahitian: “Eritēre”
  • Tajik: “Эритрея”
  • Talysh: “Eriteriyə”
  • Talysh: “Eritrejə”
  • Tamil: “எரிட்ரியா”
  • Tamil: “எரித்திரியா”
  • Taroko: “Eritrea”
  • Tatar: “Эритрея”
  • Telugu: “ఎరిట్రియా”
  • Telugu: “ఎరిత్రియా”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเอริเทรีย”
  • Thai: “เอริเทรีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཨི་རི་ཏྲའ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨེ་རི་ཏྲེ་ཨ།”
  • Tigre: “እርትርየ”
  • Tigre: “እርትርያ”
  • Tigrinya: “Hagere Ērtra”
  • Tigrinya: “Hagere Iertra”
  • Tigrinya: “Iertra”
  • Tigrinya: “ሃገረ ኤርትራ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኤርትራ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻElitulia”
  • Tsonga: “Eritreya”
  • Tumbuka: “Eritrea”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “إريتريا”
  • Turkish: “Eritre”
  • Turkmen: “Eritreýa”
  • Tyap: “A̱byin Eritrea”
  • Tyap: “Eritrea”
  • Udmurt: “Эритрея”
  • Uighur: “ئېرىترىيە”
  • Uighur: “ئېرىترېيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Держава Еритрея”
  • Ukrainian: “Еритрея”
  • Ukrainian: “Ерітрея”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Eritreja”
  • Urdu: “ارتریا”
  • Urdu: “اریتریا”
  • Urdu: “اریٹیریا”
  • Uzbek: “Eritreya”
  • Venetian: “Eritrea”
  • Veps: “Eritrei”
  • Vietnamese: “Ê-ri-tơ-rê-a (Eritrea)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ê-ri-tơ-rê-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Eritrea”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà nước Eritrea”
  • Vlax Romani: “Eritreya”
  • Volapük: “Lerüträn”
  • Võro: “Eritrea”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Eritrea”
  • Welsh: “Eritrea”
  • Western Balochi: “اریتره”
  • Western Frisian: “Eritreä”
  • Western Mari: “Эритрей”
  • Western Panjabi: “اریٹریا”
  • Wolof: “Eritere”
  • Wu Chinese: “厄立特里亚”
  • Yakut: “Эритрея”
  • Yiddish: “עריטרעא”
  • Yiddish: “עריטרעע”
  • Yoruba: “Eritira”
  • Yoruba: “Ẹritrẹ́à”
  • Yue Chinese: “厄立特里亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Eritrea”
  • Zhuang: “Eritrea”
  • Zulu: “I-Eritrea”
  • “ER”
  • “ERI”
  • “IRI”
  • “ma Eliteja”
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