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Eritrea vs Ethiopia

Eritrea and Ethiopia are compared here on capital city, currency, country calling code, ISO codes, population, area, languages and driving side, using the same source fields for both so every row is like for like.

First country

Second country

Eritrea

ERI · +291

VS

Ethiopia

ETH · +251

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Numeric rows carry a proportional bar. The larger figure is marked.

Official name

ኤርትራ

ኢትዮጵያ

Capital

Asmara

Addis Ababa

Country calling code

+291

+251

ISO alpha-2

ER

ET

ISO alpha-3

ERI

ETH

Currency

Eritrean nakfa

Ethiopian birr

Currency code

ERN

ETB

Population

5,352,000

114,963,583larger

Area

117,600 km²

1,104,300 km²larger

Continent

Africa

Region

Eastern Africa

Languages

Tigrinya, Arabic, English, Tigre, Kunama, Saho, Bilen, Nara, Afar

Amharic

Time zone

UTC+03:00

Land borders

3

6

Internet domain

.er

.et

Drives on the

right

Centre point

15, 39

8, 38

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