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Detailed Analysis for Year: 2015
Full Dataset: from 1993 to 2014
Dataset updated: 17th March 2015
Data Source: CIA Factbook
National or Regional Currency: Nakfa
Currency Symbol: ERN
Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan
Geographic Coordinates: 15 00 N, 39 00 E
Map References: Africa
Area: total: 117,600 sq km ; land: 101,000 sq km ; water: 16,600 sq km
Area - Comparative: slightly larger than Pennsylvania
Terrain: dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains
Elevation Extremes(M): lowest point: near Kulul within the Danakil Depression -75 m ; highest point: Soira 3,018 m
Land Boundaries(Km): total: 1,840 km ; border countries: Djibouti 125 km, Ethiopia 1,033 km, Sudan 682 km
Coastline: 2,234 km (mainland on Red Sea 1,151 km, islands in Red Sea 1,083 km)
Maritime Claims: territorial sea: 12 nm
Geography - Note: strategic geopolitical position along world's busiest shipping lanes; Eritrea retained the entire coastline of Ethiopia along the Red Sea upon de jure independence from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993