Neighbor of Sudan

• Its flag features an olive branch inside a wreath
• It's across the Red Sea from Yemen
• Rather new Red Sea nation
• Country that won its first Olympic medal in 2004
• Country bordering the Red Sea
• Where Arabic and Tigrinya are spoken
• African nation since 1993
• Breakaway country from Ethiopia
• Area of Ethiopia

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
named 1890 when it was an Italian colony, ultimately from Mare Erythreum , Roman name of the Red Sea, from Greek Erythre Thalassa , literally "Red Sea" (which to the Greeks also included the Gulf of Arabia and the Indian Ocean), from erythros "red" (see ...