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Fun fact 1 about Assab

صورة كنيسة في عصب - panoramio
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Assab was nothing more than a tiny Afar fishing village with a population of only 100 people and twenty huts until the middle of the 19th century.

Assab
Eritrea
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Assab

Eritrea

Country
Eritrea
Population
24.0K
Coordinates
13.00, 42.73
1383rd most populous city in the world

Assab or Aseb is a port city in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea situated on the west coast of the Red Sea. Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly Afar, Tigrinya, and Arabic.

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