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<text id=93CT0449>
<title>
Eritrea--Geography
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Eritrea
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea between
Djibouti and Sudan
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 121,320 km2</l>
<l> land area: 121,320 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly larger than Pennsylvania</l>
</list>
<p>Land boundaries: total 1,630 km, Djibouti 113 km, Ethiopia 912
km, Sudan 605 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 1,151 km (land and island coastline is 2,234 km)
</p>
<list>
<l>Maritime claims:</l>
<l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
</list>
<p>International disputes: none
</p>
<p>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 on coast desert
</p>
<p>Terrain: dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south
trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert
plan, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to
flat-to-rolling plains
</p>
<p>Natural resources: gold, potash, zinc, copper, salt, probably
oil, fish
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 3%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 2% (coffee)</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 40%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 5%</l>
<l> other: 50%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: NA km2
</p>
<p>Environment: frequent droughts, famine; deforestation; soil
eroision; overgrazing; loss of infrastructure from civil warfare
</p>
<p>Note: strategic geopolitical position along world's busiest
shipping lanes and close to Arabian oilfields, Eritrea retained
the entire coastline of Ethiopia along the Red Sea upon de jure
independence from Ethiopia on 27 April 1993
</p></body></article></text>