Yemeni Coastal Plains
Aden Governorate
Crater District

Aden

Aden is a city in the , on the Gulf of Aden at the southern end of the Red Sea.
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  • Type: City with 508,000 residents
  • Description: port city and temporary capital of Yemen
  • Also known as: “Eudaemon”
Photo: Ahmedxalkatheri, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cisterns of Tawila and Sira Castle.

Reservoir
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The , or the Tawila Tanks, is a historic site in Aden, designed to collect and store the rain that flows down from the Shamsan massif through Wadi Tawila, and to protect the city from periodic flooding.

Castle
Photo: Amspost, Public domain.
Sira Fortress/Castle is a military site in Aden, . The original fortress dates to the 11th century, and is still in use today by the Yemeni military.

Building
Saba' Palace is a palace in Aden, . It overlooks the Arabian Sea.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Crater.

Suburb
Photo: Haimasoph, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also Kraytar, is a district of the , . Its official name is Seera. It is situated in a of an ancient volcano which forms the Shamsan Mountains. As of 2003, the district had a population of 76,723 people.

Aden

Latitude
12.7896° or 12° 47′ 23″ north
Longitude
45.0285° or 45° 1′ 43″ east
Population
508,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
ADE
United Nations Location Codes
YE ADN and YE ADE
Open location code
7H47Q2QH+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 263263790
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
415189
Wiki­data ID
Q131694
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Aden” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aden”
  • Arabic: “عدن”
  • Arabic: “مدينة عدن”
  • Armenian: “Ադեն”
  • Assamese: “অ্যাডেন”
  • Asturian: “Aden”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ədən”
  • Basque: “Aden”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Aden”
  • Belarusian: “Адэн”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাডেন”
  • Betawi: “Aden”
  • Bishnupriya: “অ্যাডেন”
  • Breton: “Aden”
  • Bulgarian: “Аден”
  • Burmese: “အေဒင်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Aden”
  • Cebuano: “Aden”
  • Central Kurdish: “عەدەن”
  • Chinese: “Aden”
  • Chinese: “亚丁”
  • Chinese: “亞丁(也門)”
  • Chinese: “亞丁”
  • Chinese: “亞丁港”
  • Chuvash: “Аден”
  • Corsican: “Aden”
  • Croatian: “Aden”
  • Czech: “Aden”
  • Danish: “Aden”
  • Dutch: “Aden”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عدن”
  • Esperanto: “Adeno”
  • Estonian: “Aden”
  • Finnish: “Adan”
  • Finnish: “Aden”
  • French: “Aden”
  • Galician: “Adén”
  • Georgian: “ადენი”
  • German: “Aden”
  • Greek: “Άντεν”
  • Gujarati: “એડન”
  • Hebrew: “עדן”
  • Hindi: “अदन”
  • Hindi: “आदन्”
  • Hungarian: “Áden”
  • Icelandic: “Aden”
  • Ido: “Aden”
  • Indonesian: “Aden”
  • Interlingue: “Aden”
  • Irish: “Áidin”
  • Italian: “Aden”
  • Japanese: “アデン”
  • Japanese: “阿丹”
  • Kabyle: “Ɛaden”
  • Kalaallisut: “Aden”
  • Kannada: “ಆಡೆನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಆದನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Aden qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Аден қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Аден”
  • Kazakh: “ادەن قالاسى”
  • Kikuyu: “Aden”
  • Kirghiz: “Аден шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Аден”
  • Komering: “Aden”
  • Korean: “아덴”
  • Latin: “Adana Iemeniae”
  • Latin: “Adana”
  • Latvian: “Adena”
  • Lithuanian: “Adenas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aden”
  • Malay: “Aden”
  • Malayalam: “ഏദൻ”
  • Maltese: “Aden”
  • Marathi: “एडन”
  • Mazanderani: “عدن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aden”
  • Mingrelian: “ადენი”
  • Moksha: “Адэн”
  • Mongolian: “Аден хот”
  • Mongolian: “Аден”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “عدن”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aden”
  • Norwegian: “Aden”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Adèn”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Aden”
  • Ossetian: “Аден”
  • Persian: “عدن”
  • Polish: “Aden”
  • Portuguese: “Adem”
  • Portuguese: “Adém”
  • Portuguese: “Aden”
  • Portuguese: “Áden”
  • Pushto: “عدن”
  • Romanian: “Aden”
  • Russian: “Аден”
  • Scots: “Aden”
  • Serbian: “Aden”
  • Serbian: “Аден”
  • Serbian: “عدن”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aden”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Аден”
  • Silesian: “Aden”
  • Sindhi: “عدن”
  • Sinhala: “අඩෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Aden”
  • Slovenian: “Aden, Jemen”
  • Slovenian: “Aden, Južni Jemen”
  • Slovenian: “Aden”
  • Somali: “Cadan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “عدن”
  • Spanish: “Aden”
  • Spanish: “Adén”
  • Spanish: “Unificacion de Yemen”
  • Spanish: “Unificación de Yemen”
  • Swedish: “‘Adan”
  • Swedish: “Adan”
  • Swedish: “Aden”
  • Tagalog: “Aden”
  • Tamil: “ஏடன்”
  • Telugu: “ఆడెన్”
  • Thai: “Aden”
  • Thai: “เอเดน”
  • Turkish: “Aden”
  • Ukrainian: “Аден”
  • Urdu: “عدن”
  • Uzbek: “Adan”
  • Venetian: “Aden”
  • Vietnamese: “Aden”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aden”
  • Welsh: “Aden”
  • Western Frisian: “Aden”
  • Western Panjabi: “عدن”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚丁”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞丁”
  • Zulu: “i-Aden”
  • “Aden”

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