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Eritrea (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 15 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 15.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 039 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 39.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: The area was part of the ancient Ethiopian kingdom of Axum before the 7th century, and was claimed by Ottomans in the 16th century. In the 19th century it was claimed by Egypt and Italy. From the 1960s, it was part of the modern nation of Ethiopia from, but secessionists fought for independence. Major languages include Arabic, Italian, Tigrinya, Tigre, Saho, and Danakili. |
Names: |
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| Iritriyā (preferred,C,V,Arabic (transliterated)-P,U)
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| Dawlat Iritriyā (C,V,O,Arabic (transliterated),U)
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| Iertra (C,V,Tigrinya)
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| Iertra (Tigrinya (transliterated)-P,U)
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| Hagere Iertra (C,V,O,Tigrinya)
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| Hagere Iertra (Tigrinya (transliterated),U)
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| Iertra, Hagere (C,V,Tigrinya (transliterated),U)
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| Ērtra, Hagere (C,V,Tigrinya (transliterated),U)
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| Eritrea (C,V,English-P,U,N)
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............ | name first used by the Italians in 19th cen., refers to Roman term for Red Sea, "Mare Erythaeum"; UN Official formal name |
| Eritrea (Tagalog)
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| Eritrea (Nauruan)
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| Eritrea (Malagasy)
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| Eritrea (Vietnamese)
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| Eritrea (Ilocano)
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| Eritrea (Indonesian)
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| Eritrea (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Eritrea (Danish)
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| Eritrea (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Eritrea (Finnish)
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| Eritrea (Swedish)
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| Eritrea (Romanian)
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| Eritrea (Slovak)
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| Eritrea (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Eritrea (Catalan)
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| Eritrea (Basque)
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| Eritrea (Aragonese)
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| Eritrea (Asturian)
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| Eritrea (Irish Gaelic)
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| Eritrea (Welsh)
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| Eritrea (German)
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| Eritrea (Low German)
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| Eritrea (Albanian)
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| Eritrea (Breton)
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| Eritrea (Cornish)
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| Eritrea (Czech)
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| Eritrea (Dutch)
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| Eritrea (Afrikaans)
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| Eritrea (Galician)
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| Eritrea (Faroese)
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| Eritrea (Italian)
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| Eritrea (Estonian)
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| Eritrea (Greenlandic)
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| Eritrea (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Eritrea (Romansh)
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| Eritrea (Kikuyu)
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| Eritrea (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Eritrea (North Ndebele)
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| Eritrea (Norwegian)
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| Eritrea (Pampanga)
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| Eritrea (Northern Sami)
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| Eritrea (Shona)
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| Eritrea (Swahili (generic))
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| Eritrea (Ido)
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| Eritrea (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Eritrea (Limburgan)
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| Eritrea (Novial)
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| State of Eritrea (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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............ | National Official formal name |
| Eritrea, State of (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Irītrīyā (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Dawlat Irītrīyā (C,V,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Ērtra (C,V,Tigrinya (transliterated),U)
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| Ertra (C,V)
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| Ēritra (C,V)
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| Érythrée (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| État d'Érythrée, l' (C,O,French,U)
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| Erithrea (C,O)
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| Erythraea (C,O,Latin)
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| Erythraia (C,O)
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| ኤርትራ (C,V,Tigrinya-P,U)
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| ኤርትራ (Amharic)
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| ሃገረ ኤርትራ (C,V,O,Tigrinya,U)
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| Эритрея (C,O,Tajik)
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| Эритрея (Russian-P,U)
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| 厄立特里亚 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| إرًتريا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| ERI (C,O)
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| ER (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO232 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Eritrean (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Æriþrea (C,U,Anglo-Saxon)
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| An Eiritré (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Eartra (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Elitelɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Elitele (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Elitereya (C,U,Rundi)
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| ʻElitulia (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Eretereeya (C,U,Somali)
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| Eretria (C,U,Afar)
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| Eritere (C,U,Bambara)
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| Eriteree (C,U,Fulah)
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| Eritireya (C,U,Hausa)
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| Ê-ri-tơ-rê-a (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ê-ri-tơ-rê-a (Eritrea) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Èritrê (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Eritre (C,U,Albanian)
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| Eritre (Turkish)
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| Eritre (Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Eritrea - ኤርትራ (C,U,Galician)
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| Erítrea (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Erîtrea (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Eritrèa (C,U,Occitan)
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| Eritrea nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Eritrëe (C,U,Sangho)
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| Eritreea (C,U,Romanian)
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| Eritréia (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Eritreia (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Eritreja (C,U,Maltese)
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| Eritreja (Croatian)
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| Eritreja (Bosnian)
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| Eritreja (Latvian)
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| Eritreja (Slovene)
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| Eritreja (Upper Sorbian)
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| Eritrėja (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Eritreo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Eritreya (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Eritureya (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Erytrea (C,U,Polish)
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| Hagere Ērtra (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| i-Eritrea (C,U,Zulu)
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| Lerüträn (C,U,Volapük)
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| Orílẹ́ède Eritira (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Ɛritrea (C,U,Akan)
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| إريتريا (C,U,Arabic)
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| អេរីទ្រា (C,U,Khmer)
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| เอริเทรีย (C,U,Thai)
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| എരിട്രിയ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ერიტრეა (C,U,Georgian)
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| اریتره (C,U,Pashto)
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| اریتره (Persian-Farsi)
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| ارتریا (C,U,Urdu)
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| ئېرىترېيە (C,U,Uyghur)
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| 에리트레아 (C,U,Korean)
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| Эрытрэя (C,U,Belarusian)
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| ارتريا (C,U,Arabic)
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| Էրիտրեա (C,U,Armenian)
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| אריטראה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Ερυθραία (C,U,Greek)
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| 에리트리아 (C,U,Korean)
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| इरिट्रिया (C,U,Marathi)
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| इरिट्रिया (Hindi)
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| ইরিত্রিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| Еритреја (C,U,Serbian)
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| Еритреја (Macedonian)
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| エリトリア (C,U,Japanese)
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| ประเทศเอริเทรีย (C,U,Thai)
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| אריתריאה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Еритрея (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Еритрея (Ukrainian)
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| ارتيريا (C,U,Arabic)
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| इरीट्रिया (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| اريتريا (C,U,Arabic)
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| ອິນຊີ (C,U,Lao)
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| اریتریا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| එරිත්රියාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| એરિટ્રિયા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| எரிட்ரியா (C,U,Tamil)
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| ಏರಿಟ್ರಿಯಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| एरित्रिया (C,U,Nepali)
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| এরিট্রিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| ఎరిట్రియా (C,U,Telugu)
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| ଇରିଟ୍ରିୟା (C,U,Odia)
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| Ерітрея (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ཨེ་རི་ཏྲེ་ཨ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| എറിത്രിയ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| Еритреа (C,U,Serbian)
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| אריתרה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| إرتريا (C,U,Arabic)
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| ئەریتریا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| एरीत्रिया (C,U,Hindi)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence from Ityopiya on May 24, 1993 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| region (administrative division) (H) |
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joined Ethiopia in 1962, gained independence in 1993 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Asmara .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Eritrea, Ma’ākel) [1089719] |
| historical connection .... |
D'mt .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
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(World, Africa) [8698179] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1993 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Subject: ..... |
[VP] |
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Africa, Los Angeles Times (1993) |
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African Horn, National Geographic (1993) 98 |
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Britannica Book of the Year (1994) 603 |
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Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 196 |
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Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 279 |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 544 |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 338010 |
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ISO Country Codes (1996) 14 |
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ISO Newsletter (1993) 1993-07-16, III-56 |
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NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998) |
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NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999) accessed 04/07/99 |
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Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-85 |
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Times Concise Atlas of the World (1995) I-30 |
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UN Terminology Bulletin 345 (1993) corrigendum, 25 June 1993, for page 50; corrigendum, June 25, 1993 |
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UN Terminology Bulletin 347 (1997) 13 |
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Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea |
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