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Country profiles, flag guides, US states, capitals, currencies and travel inspiration — researched and written for curious travellers.
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Eritrea
Eritrea is a Horn of Africa country on the Red Sea, with a 1,000-km coastline and a capital, Asmara, often described as the most extensive collection of Italian Modernist architecture outside Italy.
- Capital
- Asmara
- Population
- 3.6M
- Currency
- Eritrean Nakfa (ERN)
- Continent
- Africa
Every flag, every nation.
A wall of national flags from across the world. Click any flag to read its design history, adoption date, and the symbolism of its colours. Showing 24 of 198.
Cities and landmarks worth the trip.
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States of the union.
Twenty-eight at random from all fifty states plus the District of Columbia and the territories — capitals, statehoods, mottoes, populations and flags.
- Vermont
- Mississippi
- Virginia
- Oklahoma
- Louisiana
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Montana
- Kingman Reef
- Kentucky
- Florida
- Maryland
- New Jersey
- Washington, D.C.
- Arkansas
- Wake Island
- Washington
- California
- Nevada
- Navassa Island
- Alaska
- North Carolina
- New York
- Midway Atoll
- Oregon
- Illinois
- Puerto Rico
- Palmyra Atoll
