Eritrea (pronounced/ˌɛrɨˈtreɪ.ə/(deprecatit template) or /ˌɛrɨˈtriːə/;[9]Ge'ez: ኤርትራʾErtrā, Arabic: إرتريا Iritrīyā), offeecially the State o Eritrea, is a kintra in the North East o Africae. The caipital is Asmara. It is bordered bi Sudan in the wast, Ethiopie in the sooth, an Djibouti in the sootheast. The east an northeast o the kintra hae an extensive coastline on the Red Sea, directly athort frae Saudi Arabie an Yemen. The Dahlak Archipelago an several o the Hanish Islands are pairt o Eritrea. Eritrea's size is approximately 117,600 km2 wi an estimatit population o 5 million.