Asmara (Tigrinya: ኣስመራ Asmera, formerly known as Asmera, meaning "Made them United" in Tigrinya) is the capital city and largest settlement in Eritrea, home to a population of around 980,000 people. At an elevation of 2,325 metres , Asmara is on the edge of an escarpment that is both the northwestern edge of the Great Rift Valley and of the Eritrean highlands.

The city is located in Eritrea's Maekel Region. The city itself is split into thirteen districts or administrative areas. These are; Acria, Abbashaul, Edaga Hamus, 4 Asmara, Mai Temenai, Paradiso, Sembel, Godaif, Maekel Ketema or kompshtato, Tiravolo, Gejeret, Tsetserat and Gheza Banda,villagio,hazhaz , geza kensha mai xihot & cambobolo.

Although it would be easy to think of Asmara, the Eritrean capital, solely as an Italian built colonial city, its origins actually reach back some 700 years. The Tigringa and Tigre people live around there. Originally, it is said, there were four clans living in the Asmara area on the Kebessa Plateau: the Gheza Gurtom, the Gheza Shelele, the Gheza Serenser and Gheza Asmae. These towns fought each other until the women of each clan decided that to preserve peace the four clans must unite.