Eritrea
Average temperature, rainfall and snowfall information is available for the following climate stations in Eritrea
| Official name: | State of Eritrea |
| Capital: | Asmara (formerly Asmera) |
| Area: | total: 121,320 sq km
water: 0 sq km
land: 121,320 sq km |
| 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 |
| Location: | Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan |
| Geographic coordinates: | 15 00 N, 39 00 E |
| Comparative Area: | 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 |
| 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 |
Map of Eritrea
