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Eritrea is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
June 7, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
July 26, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
August 10, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
April 8, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on September 15, 2004, May 24, 2005, May 24, 2006, May 24, 2007, May 24, 2008, May 24, 2009, May 24, 2011, May 24, 2012, May 24, 2013, May 24, 2014, May 24, 2015, May 24, 2016, and May 24, 2017.
Current status: Former featured article candidate

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Demographics of Eritrea

Describing estimates of the Eritrean population is contentious. The most recent discussions include:

RfC: consensus for the inclusion of all relevant estimates.

Eritrea‘s history didn’t only cover Axumite kingdom but also the Kingdom of punt of which Eritrea was part of from 2500BC until 1000bc, the DMT kingdom and Adulite-Aksumite kingdom. Please update that — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:CB:4F24:5000:E1B3:D5CC:3C4F:4BFA (talk) 14:56, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]