Yemen
Yemen is a country in the southern Arabian Peninsula of the Middle East. Although it is rich in history and culture, being part of several civilizations, the country has been in a state of flux since the 1980s.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Sana'a
Sana'a is the capital of Yemen, located in the Yemeni Mountains and generally the first destination for travellers to that country.Aden
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Aden is a city in the Yemeni Coastal Plains, on the Gulf of Aden at the southern end of the Red Sea.
Socotra
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Socotra is an archipelago consisting mainly of one large island and three smaller islands in the Indian Ocean, an offshore territory of Yemen, near the "horn" of Somalia.
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Yemeni Mountains
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The Yemeni Mountains are the rugged region between Yemeni Coastal Plains and the Yemeni Highlands inland, forming an "L" following the shape of the coastline.
Yemeni Coastal Plains
The Yemeni Coastal Plains are the often-narrow strip of land between the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, and the Yemeni Mountains.Yemeni Highlands
Yemen is located in West Asia, at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, between Oman and Saudi Arabia.Yemen
- Type: Country with 24,200,000 residents
- Description: country in West Asia
- Language: Arabic
- Neighbors: Oman and Saudi Arabia
- Categories: sovereign state and locality
- Location: Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
15.75° or 15° 45' northLongitude of center
47.9° or 47° 54' eastPopulation
24,200,000Area
527,970 km² (203,850 miles²)Elevation
1,421 metres (4,662 feet)Capital
SanaaCurrency
Rial (YER)Phone code
.yeInternet domain
967OpenStreetMap ID
node 249399459OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
69543Wikidata ID
Q805Yemen Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Yamen
- Abkhazian: Иемен
- Achinese: Yaman
- Adyghe: Йемен
- Afar: Yemen
- Afrikaans: Jemen
- Akan: Yemen
- Akan: Yɛmen
- Albanian: Jemen
- Albanian: Jemeni
- Amharic: Yemen
- Amharic: የመን
- Amis: Yemen
- Angika: यमन
- Arabic (Historic): الجمهورية اليمنية
- Arabic: Yemen
- Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية
- Arabic: اليمن
- Arabic: دولة اليمن
- Aragonese: Yemen
- Armenian: Եմեն
- Armenian: Եմէն
- Arpitan: Yèmen
- Assamese: য়েমেন
- Asturian: Yeme
- Asturian: Yemen
- Atayal: Yemen
- Avaric: Йаман
- Awadhi: गणतन्त्र यमन
- Azerbaijani: Yemen
- Azerbaijani: Yəmən
- Balinese: Yaman
- Bambara: Yemɛni
- Bashkir: Йемен
- Bashkir: Йәмән
- Basque: Yemen
- Bavarian: Jemen
- Belarusian: Емен
- Belarusian: Емэн
- Belarusian: Йемен
- Bengali: ইমেন
- Bengali: ইয়েমেন
- Bhojpuri: यमन
- Bishnupriya: ইয়েমেন
- Bislama: Yemen
- Bosnian: Jemen
- Brahui: Yaman
- Breton: Yemen
- Buginese: Yaman
- Buginese: ᨐᨆᨊ
- Bulgarian: Йемен
- Burmese: ယီမင်
- Burmese: ယီမင်နိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Iemen
- Catalan: República del Iemen
- Cebuano: Yemen
- Central Bikol: Yemen
- Central Kurdish: یەمەن
- Chavacano: Yemen
- Chechen: Йаман
- Chechen: Йемен
- Chinese: Yemen
- Chinese: 也門
- Chinese: 也门 / 葉門
- Chinese: 也门
- Chinese: 葉門
- Chuvash: Йемен
- Cornish: Yemen
- Corsican: Yemen
- Crimean Tatar: Yemen
- Croatian: Jemen
- Czech: Jemen
- Czech: Jemenská republika
- Dagbani: Yemen
- Danish: Yemen
- Dhivehi: ޔަމަން
- Dimli (individual language): Yemen
- Dotyali: यमन
- Dutch: Jemen
- Dutch: Republiek Jemen
- Dutch: YE
- Dutch: YEM
- Dzongkha: ཡེ་མེན
- Eastern Mari: Йемен
- Egyptian Arabic: اليمن
- English: Arabia Felix / Arabia eudaímōn
- English: Rep. Yemen
- English: Republic of Yemen
- English: YEM
- English: ye
- Esperanto: Jemeno
- Esperanto: Respubliko Jemeno
- Esperanto: YEM
- Esperanto: ye
- Estonian: Jeemen
- Estonian: Jeemeni Vabariik
- Ewe: Yemen nutome
- Extremaduran: Yemen
- Faroese: Jemen
- Fiji Hindi: Yemen
- Finnish: Jemen
- Finnish: Jemenin tasavalta
- French: YE
- French: Yémen
- French: la République du Yémen
- Fulah: Yaman
- Fulah: Yemen
- Gagauz: Yemen
- Galician: Iemen - اليمن
- Galician: Iemen
- Galician: O Iemen
- Ganda: Yemeni
- Georgian: იემენი
- German: Jemen
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Yemen
- Goan Konkani: Yemen
- Goan Konkani: यॅमॅन
- Goan Konkani: येमेन
- Greek: Υεμένη
- Guarani: Jemẽ
- Guianese Creole French: Yémen
- Gujarati: યમન
- Gujarati: યેમેન
- Haitian: Yemèn
- Hakka Chinese: Yemen
- Hausa: Iemene
- Hausa: Yamal
- Hausa: Yemen
- Hawaiian: Iemene
- Hebrew: תימן
- Hindi: यमन
- Hungarian: Jemen
- Hungarian: Jemeni Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Jemen
- Ido: Yemen
- Igbo: Yemen
- Iloko: Yemen
- Inari Sami: Jemen
- Inari Sami: Jemen täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Yaman
- Interlingua: Yemen
- Interlingue: Yemen
- Irish: Poblacht Éimin
- Irish: Éimin
- Italian: Repubblica dello Yemen
- Italian: Yemen
- Jamaican Creole English: Yemen
- Japanese: イエメン
- Japanese: イエメン共和国
- Javanese: Yaman
- Kabardian: Йемен
- Kabiyè: Yemenii
- Kabyle: Yamen
- Kalaallisut: Jemen
- Kalaallisut: Yemen
- Kalmyk: Йеменмудин Орн
- Kannada: ಯೆಮನ್
- Kannada: ಯೆಮೆನ್
- Kara-Kalpak: YEM
- Kara-Kalpak: Yemen
- Kara-Kalpak: Yemen Respublikası
- Kara-Kalpak: Йемен
- Kara-Kalpak: Йемен Республикасы
- Kashmiri: یَمَن
- Kashubian: Jemen
- Kazakh: Йемен
- Kazakh: Йемен Республикасы
- Khmer: យេម៉ែន
- Kikuyu: Yemen
- Kikuyu: Yemeni
- Kinyarwanda: Yemeni
- Kirghiz: Йемен
- Komi: Йемен
- Kongo: Yemen
- Korean: YE
- Korean: YEM
- Korean: 예멘
- Korean: 예멘 공화국
- Kurdish: Yemen
- Kurdish: یەمەن
- Ladin: Iemen
- Ladino: Teman
- Ladino: Yemen
- Lao: Yemen
- Lao: ເຢເມນ
- Latin: Iemenia
- Latvian: Jemena
- Lezghian: Йемен
- Ligurian: Yemen
- Limburgan: Jeme
- Lingala: Yeméni
- Lingala: Yemɛnɛ
- Lingua Franca Nova: Iaman
- Literary Chinese: 也門
- Lithuanian: Jemenas
- Livvi: Jemen
- Lombard: Yemen
- Low German: Jemen
- Lower Sorbian: Jemen
- Luba-Katanga: Yemenu
- Luxembourgish: Jemen
- Macedonian: Јемен
- Madurese: Yaman
- Maithili: यमन
- Malagasy: Iemena
- Malagasy: Yemen
- Malay: Yaman
- Malay: يمن
- Malayalam: യെമൻ
- Maltese: Jemen
- Maltese: Repubblika tal-Jemen
- Maltese: il-Jemen
- Manipuri: ꯌꯦꯃꯦꯟ
- Manx: Yn Yeaman
- Manx: yn Yeaman
- Maori: Īemene
- Marathi: येमेन
- Marathi: येमेनचे प्रजासत्ताक
- Mazanderani: یمن
- Min Dong Chinese: Yemen
- Min Nan Chinese: Yemen
- Minangkabau: Yaman
- Mingrelian: იემენი
- Mirandese: Iémen
- Moksha: Емэн
- Mongolian: Йемен
- Mongolian: ꯌꯦꯃꯦꯟ
- Moroccan Arabic: ليامان
- Moroccan Arabic: ليمن
- Nauru: Yemen
- Navajo: Shádiʼááhjí Ásáí Dineʼé Bikéyah
- Neapolitan: Yemen
- Nepali: गणतन्त्र यमन
- Nepali: यमन
- Nepali: येमेन
- Newari: गणतन्त्र यमन
- North Ndebele: Yemeni
- Northern Frisian: Jemen
- Northern Luri: یمن
- Northern Sami: Jemen
- Northern Sami: Jemena dásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Jemen dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Jemen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Jemen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Jemen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Jemen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Republikken Jemen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Yemen
- Novial: Yemen
- Occitan (post 1500): Iemèn
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܝܡܢ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Gemen
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Ȝemen
- Oriya: ୟେମନ
- Oriya: ୟେମେନ
- Oriya: ୟେମେନ୍
- Oromo: Yaman
- Ossetian: Йемен
- Pali: यमन
- Pampanga: Yemen
- Panjabi: ਯਮਨ
- Papiamento: Yemen
- Persian: یمن
- Piemontese: Yemen
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Yemen
- Polish: Jemen
- Portuguese: Iemen
- Portuguese: Iémen
- Portuguese: Iémene
- Portuguese: Iêmen
- Portuguese: Iêmene
- Pushto: يمن
- Pushto: یمن
- Quechua: Yaman
- Quechua: Yemen
- Romanian: Yemen
- Romansh: Jemen
- Rundi: Yemeni
- Russia Buriat: Йемен
- Russian: Иемен
- Russian: Йемен
- Russian: Йеменская Республика
- Russian: аль-Джумхурийя аль-Йаманийя
- Rusyn: Ємен
- Sakizaya: Yemen
- Samoan: Iemene
- Samoan: Yemen
- Samogitian: Jemens
- Sango: Yëmêni
- Sanskrit: यमन
- Santali: ᱭᱮᱢᱮᱱ
- Saraiki: یمن
- Sardinian: Jemen
- Saterfriesisch: Jemen
- Scots: Yemen
- Scottish Gaelic: An Eaman
- Scottish Gaelic: Iemen
- Serbian: Jemen
- Serbian: Јемен
- Serbo-Croatian: Jemen
- Shan: မိူင်းယႄႇမႅၼ်ႇ
- Shona: Yemen
- Shona: Yemeni
- Sicilian: Yemen
- Silesian: Jymyn
- Sindhi: يمن
- Sinhala: යේමනය
- Skolt Sami: Jemeeʹn
- Skolt Sami: Jemeeʹn tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Jemen
- Slovak: Jemenská republika
- Slovenian: Jemen
- Slovenian: Republika Jemen
- Slovenian: YEM
- Slovenian: ye
- Somali: Yaman
- Somali: Yemen
- South Azerbaijani: یمن
- Spanish: Republica de Yemen
- Spanish: República de Yemen
- Spanish: Yemen
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵢⴰⵎⴰⵏ
- Sundanese: Yaman
- Swahili: Yemen
- Swahili: Yemeni
- Swati: IYemeni
- Swedish: Jemen
- Swedish: Republiken Jemen
- Swedish: Republiken Yemen
- Swedish: Yemen
- Swiss German: Jemen
- Sylheti: ꠁꠀꠝꠦꠘ
- Tagalog: Yemen
- Tajik: Яман
- Talysh: Jəmən
- Talysh: Yəmən
- Tamil: ஏமன்
- Tamil: யெமன்
- Taroko: Yemen
- Tatar: Йәмән
- Telugu: యెమన్
- Telugu: యెమెన్
- Tetum: Iemen
- Thai: ประเทศเยเมน
- Thai: เยเมน
- Tibetan: ཡེ་མེན།
- Tigrinya: የመን
- Tok Pisin: Yemen
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Iemeni
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻIemeni
- Tosk Albanian: Jemen
- Tumbuka: Yemen
- Tunisian Arabic: اليمن
- Turkish: YEM
- Turkish: Yemen
- Turkish: Yemen Cum.
- Turkish: Yemen Cumhuriyeti
- Turkish: ye
- Turkmen: Ýemen
- Udmurt: Йемен
- Uighur: Yemen
- Uighur: يەمەن
- Ukrainian: Ємен
- Upper Sorbian: Jemen
- Urdu: یمن
- Uzbek: Yaman
- Venetian: Jemen
- Veps: Jemen
- Vietnamese: Y-ê-men (Yemen)
- Vietnamese: Y-ê-men
- Vietnamese: Yemen
- Vlaams: Jemen
- Vlax Romani: Yemen
- Volapük: Yämän
- Võro: Jeemen
- Waray (Philippines): Yemen
- Welsh: Iemen
- Welsh: Yemen
- Western Armenian: Եմէն
- Western Balochi: یمن
- Western Frisian: Jemen
- Western Panjabi: یمن
- Wolof: Yaman
- Wu Chinese: 也门
- Yakut: Йиэмэн
- Yiddish: תימן
- Yoruba: Yemen
- Yoruba: Yemeni
- Yue Chinese: 也門
- Zeeuws: Jeem’n
- Zhuang: Yemen
- Zulu: IYemen
- Zulu: i-Yemen
- Al Jumhūrīyah al Yamanīyah
- Al Yaman
- ma Jamanija
- ಯಮನ್
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