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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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The Eritrean capital of is a vibrant mix of Italian and African architecture and culture. It is by far the biggest and most important city of Eritrea and not just the administration center of the country but also the cultural center and the place where every tourist will arrive to the country.

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or Mitsiwa is a port city in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea, located on the Red Sea at the northern end of the beside the .

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Sitting in the picturesque foothills of northern Eritrea, is the country's second-largest city and regional capital of the surrounding districts.

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is a town in Eritrea. It is about ten hours by taxi from the Eritrean capital of . In the moment it is not possible to get a travel permit to go to , so for tourists it is out of reach.

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is a market town in southern Eritrea, on the edge of the Eritrean highlands ሶይራ. The name Sanafe driven from yemeni words.The surrounding area is inhabited by the Saho people and the Tigrinya people.

is a in Eritrea. Made up of massive mountains as well as valleys, it is located at an altitude of between 900 and 2400 meters.

is a in the Northern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. It includes part of the Dahlak archipelago and the surrounding waters.

Eritrea

Latitude of center
15.3° or 15° 18′ north
Longitude of center
39.11° or 39° 6′ 36″ east
Population
5,290,000
Area
121,320 km² (46,842 miles²)
Elevation
1,867 metres (6,125 feet)
Capital
Currency
Nakfa (ERN)
Phone code
.er
Internet domain
291
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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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: “إريتريا”
  • Arabic: “ارتريا”
  • 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: “Eritrea”
  • Betawi: “Èritréa”
  • Bhojpuri: “इरीट्रिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “ইরিত্রিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Eritrea”
  • Bosnian: “Eritreja”
  • Breton: “Eritrea”
  • Bulgarian: “Еритрея”
  • Burmese: “အီရီထရီးယား”
  • Burmese: “အီရီထရီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Eritrea”
  • Cebuano: “Eritrea”
  • Cebuano: “Eritreya”
  • Central Bikol: “Eritreya”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێریتریا”
  • Chavacano: “Eritrea”
  • Chechen: “Эритре”
  • Chechen: “Эритрей”
  • Chinese: “Èlìtèlǐyà”
  • Chinese: “Eritrea”
  • 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: “ER”
  • Dutch: “ERI”
  • Dutch: “Eritrea”
  • Dutch: “Staat Eritrea”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨེ་རི་ཊྲེ་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Эритрей”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اريتريا”
  • Esperanto: “ER”
  • 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”
  • French: “ER”
  • French: “Erythrée”
  • 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”
  • Greek: “Ερυθραία”
  • Greek: “Κράτος της Ερυθραίας”
  • Guarani: “Erityrea”
  • 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: “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: “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”
  • Kabiyè: “Eriitree”
  • Kabyle: “Iritirya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Eritrea”
  • Kalmyk: “Эритреймудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಎರಿಟ್ರಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಎರಿಟ್ರಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಏರಿಟ್ರಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Eritreya”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Moksha: “Эритрэя”
  • Mongolian: “Эритрей”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إريتيريا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إيريطيريا”
  • Mossi: “Eritrea”
  • Nauru: “Eritrea”
  • Navajo: “Tónteel Łichííʼí Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Eritrea”
  • Nepali: “इरित्रिया”
  • Nepali: “एरिट्रिया”
  • Nepali: “एरिट्रीया”
  • 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”
  • 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: “Eritreia”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Eritrea”
  • 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: “Eritrea”
  • 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”
  • Zulu: “I-Eritrea”
  • “ER”
  • “ERI”
  • “Eritrea”
  • “Eritriejė”
  • “IRI”
  • “ma Eliteja”
  • “इरीट्रिया”

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