!!!Eritrea: Geography
||Location|Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan
||Geographic Coordinates|15 00 N, 39 00 E[{GoogleMap location='15.0,39.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''117,600 sq km\\''land: ''101,000 sq km\\''water: ''16,600 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 117600\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 117598\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 121320\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 121320\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 121144\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 117600''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''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)
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''near Kulul within the Danakil Depression -75 m\\''highest point: ''Soira 3,018 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Emba Soira 3018 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Dega 3047 m; Amba Mossino 3038 m; Soyra 3013 m; Amba Debra 2833 m; Adi-Hans 2820 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] 
||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
||Natural Hazards|frequent droughts, rare earthquakes and volcanoes; locust swarms volcanism: Dubbi (elev. 1,625 m), which last erupted in 1861, was the country's only historically active volcano until Nabro (2,218 m) came to life on 12 June 2011
||Natural Resource|gold, potash, zinc, copper, salt, possibly oil and natural gas, fish
||Land Use|''arable land: ''5.87%\\''permanent crops: ''0.02%\\''other: ''94.12% (2011)
||Climate|hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually, heaviest June to September); semiarid in western hills and lowlands
||Irrigated Land|215.9 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|6.3 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|deforestation; desertification; soil erosion; overgrazing; loss of infrastructure from civil warfare
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Asmara; Asseb; Keren; Mitsiwa; Addi Ugri\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Asmara; Keren; Massawa; Assab; Mendefera\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Africa/Eritrea/Geography/Important_Cities]
||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