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| Location | Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan |
| Geographic coordinates | 15 00 N, 39 00 E |
| Map references | africa |
| Area |
total: 121,320 sq km water: 0 sq km land: 121,320 sq km |
| Area comparative | slightly larger than Pennsylvania |
| Land boundaries |
total: 1,626 km border countries: djibouti 109 km, ethiopia 912 km, sudan 605 km |
| Coastline | 2,234 km total; mainland on Red Sea 1,151 km, islands in Red Sea 1,083 km |
| Maritime claims | territorial sea: 12 nm |
| Climate | hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually); semiarid in western hills and lowlands; rainfall heaviest during June-September except in coastal desert |
| 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 |
lowest point: near kulul within the denakil depression -75 m highest point: soira 3,018 m |
| Natural resources | gold, potash, zinc, copper, salt, possibly oil and natural gas, fish |
| Land use |
arable land: 4.95% permanent crops: 0.03% other: 95.02% (2001) |
| Irrigated land | 220 sq km (1998 est.) |
| Natural hazards | frequent droughts; locust swarms |
| Environment - current issues | deforestation; desertification; soil erosion; overgrazing; loss of infrastructure from civil warfare |
| Environment - international agreements |
party to: biodiversity, climate change, desertification, endangered species signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
| 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 |
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