Eastern Africa
Eritrea
State of Eritrea
Core facts
- Capital
- Asmara
- Population
- 3,607,000
- Area
- 117,600 km^2
- Country code
- ERI
- Flag emoji
- 🇪🇷
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 30.7 per km^2
- Calling code
- +291
Culture and society
- Languages
- Arabic, English, Tigrinya
- Religions
- Christianity (49.0%), Islam (42.0%), Folk religions (6.0%), Unaffiliated (2.0%), Other religions (100.0%)
- Native names
- إرتريا, Eritrea, ኤርትራ
- Demonyms (EN)
- Eritrean / Eritrean
- Start of week
- monday
- Driving side
- right
- Timezones
- UTC+03:00
- Alternative spellings
- ER, State of Eritrea, ሃገረ ኤርትራ, Dawlat Iritriyá, ʾErtrā, Iritriyā
Geography and map
- Continents
- Africa
- Coordinates
- 15.00, 39.00
- Landlocked
- No
- Borders
- DJI, ETH, SDN
- Border countries count
- 3
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- Eritrean nakfa (Nfk)
- Top-level domain
- .er
- FIFA code
- ERI
- Capital coordinates
- 15.33, 38.93
- Postal code format
- N/A
- Gini index
- N/A
- Coat of arms
