REST Countries

Africa · Eastern Africa

Eritrea

Everything you need to work with Eritrea country data: capital, population, currencies, languages, and codes, sourced from the REST Countries API and ready to drop into your own project.

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Country facts

Capital Asmara
Population 3,500,000
Region Africa · Eastern Africa
Codes ER · ERI
Currencies Eritrean nakfa (ERN)
Languages Arabic English Tigrinya
More data These are just the highlights. The REST Countries API returns 85+ more fields for Eritrea, including borders, timezones, calling codes, native and translated names, and coordinates. See every field.

Call the Eritrea country API

Request the full Eritrea record from the REST Countries API. Copy the snippet for your language and drop in your own API key.

curl "https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ER?pretty=1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {{your_api_key}}"
const response = await fetch(
  'https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ER',
  { headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer {{your_api_key}}' } }
);
const data = await response.json();
fetch(
  'https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ER',
  { headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer {{your_api_key}}' } }
)
  .then(function (response) { return response.json(); })
  .then(function (data) { console.log(data); });
import requests
response = requests.get(
  'https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ER',
  headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer {{your_api_key}}'}
)
data = response.json()
$ch = curl_init('https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ER');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Authorization: Bearer {{your_api_key}}']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
uri = URI('https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ER')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {{your_api_key}}'
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) do |http|
  http.request(request)
end
data = JSON.parse(response.body)
package main
import (
  "encoding/json"
  "io"
  "net/http"
)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ER", nil)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer {{your_api_key}}")
resp, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
var data map[string]interface{}
json.Unmarshal(body, &data)
use reqwest::blocking::Client;
use serde_json::Value;
let client = Client::new();
let response = client
  .get("https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ER")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer {{your_api_key}}")
  .send()?;
let data: Value = response.json()?;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
  .uri(URI.create("https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ER"))
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer {{your_api_key}}")
  .GET()
  .build();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
String body = response.body();
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Text.Json;
var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {{your_api_key}}");
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<JsonElement>(
  "https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ER");
import Foundation
var request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: "https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ER")!)
request.addValue("Bearer {{your_api_key}}", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
let (data, _) = try await URLSession.shared.data(for: request)
let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data)

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Integrate Eritrea data into your app

The REST Countries API returns Eritrea as structured JSON over HTTPS, ready to pull straight into web, mobile, and backend projects with no scraping and no manual data entry. Request only the fields you need and cache the response.

  • Populate country dropdowns, address forms, and checkout or shipping flows.
  • Localize your app with native names, languages, and currency details.
  • Enrich dashboards, CRMs, and analytics with region, population, and ISO codes.
  • Look up Eritrea by alpha-2 code, alpha-3 code, or country name.

Read the API docs