Worth knowing
Eritrea
Asmara became a World Heritage site in 2017. Its Fiat Tagliero service station, finished in 1938, has long concrete wings that stretch out with no pillars to hold them up.
Where its story happens
Asmara, at 15.34°N, 38.94°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Eritrea
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Eritrea, on the Red Sea coast of the Horn of Africa, north of Ethiopia. See Eritrea on a map.
- Its capital is Asmara, high on a plateau, and it has about 1,000 km of Red Sea coast.
- Its name comes from the Latin for 'Red Sea', and that sea runs along its whole coast.
- In 2024 its cyclist Biniam Girmay became the first Black African to win a stage of the Tour de France.
- Its capital is a showcase of 1930s modernist buildings, among them a petrol station shaped like an aeroplane.