Eritrea
Eritrea (officially State of Eritrea) is a country in Eastern Africa, with its capital at Asmara, and is home to roughly 3.5M people.
Its official languages are Arabic, English, Tigrinya; the currency in circulation is Eritrean nakfa (Nfk); people from here are called Eritrean.
- »Asmara's modernist architecture, built under Italian rule, is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Eritrea touches three neighbours: Djibouti to the southeast, Ethiopia to the south and Sudan to the west. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Asmara was rebuilt by Italian planners in the 1930s as a showcase of modernist architecture, and the whole city centre is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
123,010 km² (47,494 sq mi), 97th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of North Korea.
Population 3,535,603, 131st of 198 on file. That averages 29 per km² (74 per sq mi).
The olive wreath was carried by the independence movement for thirty years of war with Ethiopia. Red is the blood shed, green the agriculture, blue the sea.