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Eritrea

State of Eritrea
ሃገረ ኤርትራ  Hagere Ertra
دولة إرتريا  Dawlat Iritriyā
Emblem of Eritrea
Emblem
Anthem: ኤርትራ ኤርትራ ኤርትራ  (Tigrinya)
"Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea"
Location of Eritrea
Capital
and largest city
Asmara
Official languagesTigrinya[1]
Arabic[1]
English[1][2]
Ethnic groups
(2012[3])
55% Tigrinya
30% Tigre
4% Saho
2% Kunama
2% Rashaida
2% Bilen
5% othera
Demonym(s)Eritrean
GovernmentUnitary single-party presidential republic under an totalitarian dictatorship
• President
Isaias Afewerki
Independence
• From Italy
November 1941
• From United Kingdom under UN Mandate
1951
• from Ethiopia de facto
May 24, 1991
• From Ethiopia de jure
May 24, 1993
Area
• Total
117,600 km2 (45,400 sq mi) (101st)
• Water (%)
0.14%
Population
• 2012 estimate
6,086,495 (107th)
• 2008 census
5,291,370
• Density
51.8/km2 (134.2/sq mi) (154th)
GDP (PPP)2012 estimate
• Total
$4.397 billion[4]
• Per capita
$777[4]
GDP (nominal)2012 estimate
• Total
$3.108 billion[4]
• Per capita
$549[4]
HDI (2011)Steady 0.349
low · 177th
CurrencyNakfa (ERN)
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+3 (not observed)
Driving sideright
Calling code291
ISO 3166 codeER
Internet TLD.er
  1. Afar, Beni-Amer, Nara.
  2. Working languages only.[5]
A map of Eritrea

Eritrea is a country on the eastern coast of Africa. Its official name is The State of Eritrea.

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  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 "Anzahl der Ausländer in Deutschland nach Herkunftsland". Das Statistik Portal.
  17. ↑ Roughly half of the Eritrean diaspora
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  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 "Foreign-born persons by country of birth, age, sex and year". Statistics Sweden.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 "Ethiopian London". BBC. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
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  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Adejumobi, Saheed A. (2007). The History of Ethiopia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-313-32273-0.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Eusebius of Caesarea, the author of Ecclesiastical History in the 4th century, states that Saint Mark came to Egypt in the first or third year of the reign of Emperor Claudius, i.e. AD 41 or 43 Otto Friedrich August Meinardus (2002). Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity. American Univ in Cairo Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-977-424-757-6.
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  34. ↑ Roughly half of the Eritrean diaspora
  35. ↑ Amharas are estimated to be the largest ethnic group of estimated 20.000 Ethiopian Germans|https://www.giz.de/fachexpertise/downloads/gtz2009-en-ethiopian-diaspora.pdf Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
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  37. ↑ "United Kingdom". Ethnologue.com. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
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  46. ↑ Roughly half of the Eritrean diaspora
  47. ↑ Amharas are estimated to be the largest ethnic group of estimated 20.000 Ethiopian Germans|https://www.giz.de/fachexpertise/downloads/gtz2009-en-ethiopian-diaspora.pdf Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
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