Geographical position: Eritrea is located in Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan.
The country’s climate is hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually); semiarid in western hills and lowlands; rainfall heaviest during June-September except in coastal desert.
Languages: Afar, Arabic, Tigre and Kunama, Tigrinya, other Cushitic languages.
Asmara is the capital of Eritrea.
Surface: 121,320 sq km
Population: 4,561,599
System of government: transitional government
Capital: Asmara
Religion: Muslim, Coptic Christian, Roman Catholic, Protestant
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