Eritrea is a small country at the shores of the Red Sea (125,000 km2). Located in the Horn of Africa with a population of less than 6.5 million (2014 estimation), it is bordered by the Sudan, Ethiopia, and Djibouti (Figure 1).
Map of Eritrea
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George, B.P., Treiber, M. (2016). Eritrea. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01384-8_647
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