Asmara's modernist architecture is so well preserved that the whole city centre is a World Heritage Site.
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Eritrea
State of Eritrea ยท ุฅุฑูุชุฑูุง
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
117.6Kkmยฒ of land
$340GDP / person
AsmaraCapital
- ISO codes
- ER ยท ERI
- Density
- 52 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic, English, Tigrinya
- Currency
- Eritrean nakfa (ERN)
- Dial code
- +291
- Internet domain
- .er
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 15.7870ยฐ N, 38.2860ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Eritrean
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $2.07B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Eritrea stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
113th
of 242 ยท 0.08% of world population
Land area
102nd
of 242 ยท 0.08% of world land
GDP per person
236th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
152nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Eritrea
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 6,081,196 people, the 113th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,262 of everyone alive.
Covers 117,600 kmยฒ, making it the 102nd largest country here - about 3.9 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 52 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Asmara, at 15.33ยฐ N, 38.93ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 620,802.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Djibouti, Ethiopia and Sudan.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Asmara.
The currency is the Eritrean nakfa (ERN, symbol Nfk).
Has 3 official languages: Arabic, English and Tigrinya.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Asmara
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Asmara
Anseba
15.3333ยฐ N, 38.9333ยฐ E
620.8K
2
Assab
Debubawi Keyih Bahri
13.0100ยฐ N, 42.7300ยฐ E
105.5K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Eritrea.