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Eritrea

Eritrea is one of the 193 UN member states, in Eastern Africa. UN Tourism counted 142,000 international arrivals there in 2016, rarer than 90% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Prism.

Eritrea’s stamp in Globestamp
Prism · 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year
International arrivals
142,000in 2016, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
180th of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Prismrarer than 90%
Area
122,970 km² (47,479 sq mi)
Population
6.1 millionNatural Earth estimate
Regions
6in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
1with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
1on Globestamp’s list

Does Eritrea count as a country?

Yes. Eritrea is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Eritrea?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Eritrea
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Eritrea stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Eritrea’s is Prism: the full spectrum with glints, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year. With 142,000 international arrivals in 2016, Eritrea is rarer than 90% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Eritrea

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Eritrea when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. With a single airport with scheduled flights (Asmara International Airport, ASM), photos only at the airport make a transit stamp, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Eritrea you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Eritrea, from 1 World Heritage Site.

World Heritage Sites 1

Asmara: A Modernist African City (2017). On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Asmara620,802
Mendefera257,390
Keren150,000
Massawa142,564
Assab105,496

Airports

Eritrea has 1 airport with scheduled flights. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

6 regions to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Eritrea into 6 regions (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 6

Anseba · Debub · Gash-Barka · Maekel · Northern Red Sea · Southern Red Sea

Questions people ask

Is Eritrea a country?

Yes. Eritrea is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Eritrea a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 142,000 international arrivals in Eritrea in 2016, the 180th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Eritrea stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Prism, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year, rarer than 90% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Eritrea count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Eritrea”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Eritrea

Near Eritrea

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