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ERITREA


Location: Africa
Capital:
Asmara ( 400.000 inhab.)
Main Cities:
Massawa, Aseb
Population:
3,850,000
Area:
121,143 km2
Coin:
1 nakfa = 100 cents
Languages:
Arab, Tigrino, Italian
Religions:
Coptic Christian, Moslem
The Independence's Year:
1993
Mountains:
Highland of the Asmara, Acrocoro Etiopico
Rivers:
Baraka, Mereb, Tacazzè

 

 

The war with Ethiopia for motives for border (1998. 2000) has put in knee an already poor country, one of the worse ones of the world.
It is the ex Italian colony that more preserve Italian characters, above all to Asmara. The climate, moderate in the inside plateau, it is warm on the coast, that however it is wet from a very beautiful sea, almost entirely studded by numerous entire islands.

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