About Yemen

Area: 537,010 Km²
Coast Line: 1,906 Km

Population: 22,231,100
(2007 statatistics)

Capital:
San'a', Pop 1,653,300

Major cities:
Aden, Pop 560,000
Ta'izz, Pop 406,900
Hodeida, Pop 160,000

Border countries:
NORTH Saudi Arabia,
EAST Oman.

Location: Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia. Strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes
Map references: Middle East
Natural resources: petroleum, fish, rock salt, marble, small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper, fertile soil in west
Principal mountains: Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb 3,760 m
Principal islands: Socotra 3600 Km²
Climate: Mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast

Administrative divisions: Abyan, Adan, Ad Dali', Al Bayda', Al Hudaydah, Al Jawf, Al Mahrah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Hadramawt, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahij, Ma'rib, Sa'dah, San'a', Shabwah, Ta'izz
System of government: Presidential Republic
Language: Arabic (official), English
Currency: Yemeni Rial (YRI)
Ethnic groups: Predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans.

For further information on Yemen History click here

"CARAVAN KINGDOMS, YEMEN AND THE ANCIENT INCENSE TRADE" click here