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Eritrea Geography - 2002 https://greekorthodoxchurch.org/wfb2002/eritrea/eritrea_geography.html SOURCE: 2002 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK Location Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan Geographic coordinates 15 00 N, 39 00 E Map references Africa Area
Area - comparative slightly larger than Pennsylvania Land boundaries
Coastline 2,234 km total; mainland on Red Sea 1,151 km, islands in Red Sea 1,083 km Maritime claims
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
Natural resources gold, potash, zinc, copper, salt, possibly oil and natural gas, fish Land use
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
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
NOTE: The information regarding Eritrea on this page is re-published from the 2002 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Eritrea Geography 2002 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Eritrea Geography 2002 should be addressed to the CIA. |