Map of Eritrea

Eritrea is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 15.0° N, 39.0° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Djibouti, Ethiopia and Sudan — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Eritrea is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Eritrea shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Eritrea covers about 117,600 km² (45,406 sq mi). That makes it the 99th-largest country in the world by area and the 37th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 17 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 3,607,000, the 131st-largest in the world and the 40th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Eritrea has an average population density of about 31 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 40th by population and 37th by area.

The seat of government is Asmara, and the official currency is the Eritrean nakfa (ERN, Nfk), and the main official languages are Arabic, English and Tigrinya. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Eritrea carries the ISO country codes ER and ERI, dials on the international calling code +291 and uses the .er internet domain.

Eritrea shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Ethiopia (capital Addis Ababa, about 111,652,998 people), Sudan (capital Khartoum, about 51,662,000 people) and Djibouti (capital Djibouti, about 1,066,809 people).

By area, Eritrea is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 15.0° N, 39.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Eritrea within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Asmara. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Eritrea lies about 1,665 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Eritrea keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Eritrean nakfa (ERN, Nfk).

The official languages are Arabic, English and Tigrinya, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +291 and websites commonly use the .er internet domain.

In short, Eritrea is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Asmara. Eritrea has a population of about 3,607,000 and covers around 117,600 km² (45,406 sq mi), ranking it 131st in the world by population and 99th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Eritrea.

The flag of Eritrea comprises three triangles — a large red isosceles triangle with its base spanning the hoist end and its apex at the midpoint on the fly end, and a green and blue right-angled triangle above and beneath the red triangle. On the hoist side of the red triangle is a golden vertical olive branch encircled by a golden olive wreath.

The flag of Eritrea is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.