Perim
Perim, also called Mayyun in Arabic, is a Yemeni volcanic island in the Strait of Mandeb at the south entrance into the Red Sea, off the south-west coast of Yemen.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Barim”, “Jazīrat Mayyūn”, “Jazīrat Miyūn”, “Maymūn”, “Mayun”, “Mayūn”, “Mayyun”, “Mayyūn”, “Meyo”, “Meyún”, “ostrvo Perim”, “Perim Island”, “بريم”, “جزيرة البرم”, “جزيره بريم”, and “ميون”
Perim
- Categories: human settlement, uzlah, and landform
- Location: Mualla District, Governorate Number One, Yemen, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
12.65692° or 12° 39′ 25″ north
Longitude
43.42013° or 43° 25′ 13″ east
Population
187
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
UN/LOCODE
YE PRM
Open location code
7H45MC4C+Q3
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Perim” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Perim”
- Arabic: “جزيرة ميون”
- Asturian: “Perim”
- Azerbaijani: “Perim adası”
- Belarusian: “Перым”
- Bosnian: “Perim”
- Bulgarian: “Перим”
- Catalan: “Perim”
- Cebuano: “Perim Island”
- Chinese: “丕林岛”
- Chinese: “丕林島”
- Croatian: “Perim”
- Czech: “Perim”
- Dutch: “Perim”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره ميون”
- Esperanto: “Perim”
- Estonian: “Barīm”
- Finnish: “Perim”
- French: “Perim”
- French: “Périm”
- German: “Perim”
- Hebrew: “פרים”
- Indonesian: “Perim”
- Irish: “Perim”
- Italian: “Perim”
- Japanese: “ペリム島”
- Korean: “페림섬”
- Latin: “Diodori insula”
- Lithuanian: “Perimas”
- Malay: “Perim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Perim”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Perim”
- Norwegian: “Perim”
- Persian: “جزیره پریم”
- Polish: “Perim”
- Portuguese: “Perim”
- Russian: “Перим”
- Serbian: “Perim”
- Serbian: “Перим”
- Spanish: “Perim”
- Swedish: “Perim”
- Ukrainian: “Перім”
- Ukrainian: “Пєрім”
- Vietnamese: “Perim”
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