Where is Eritrea?
Eritrea is a country in Eastern Africa, bordered by Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Sudan.
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Crazy but True
Eritrea's capital is a preserved Italian Art Deco city dropped in the Horn of Africa. Asmara was built up in the 1930s and is filled with futurist buildings, including a service station shaped like an airplane. UNESCO listed the whole city center in 2017.
Eritrea facts
- Capital
- Asmara
- Population
- 3,607,003 (2025)
- Area
- 117,600 km²
- Continent
- Africa
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Currency
- Eritrean nakfa (ERN)
- Languages
- Arabic, English, and Tigrinya
- Coordinates
- 15°, 39°
- Landlocked
- No
- Country code
- ER · ERI
How Eritrea compares
- Eritrea is the 100th largest of the 168 countries on our map by area.
- It is smaller than Malawi and larger than Benin.
- It is the 129th most populous of the 167 with population data.
- It shares land borders with 3 countries.
- Within Africa, it is the 37th largest of 49 countries by area.