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Sana’a

Sana'a is the capital of , located in the and generally the first destination for travellers to that country. See the Stay safe section of this article and the Yemen country page for important safety advice.
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  • Type: City with 1,530,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Yemen
  • Also known as: “San’a‘”, “Şan‘ā’”, “San’ah”, “Sana”, “Sanaa”, “Ṣanʻāʼ”, and “Ṣanʿāʾ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yemen Military Museum and Revolution Hospital.

Museum
Photo: Email4mobile, Public domain.
The or The Military Museum is a museum in central Sana'a, . It is located on the southwestern corner of the Al-Tahrir Square, next to the .

Hospital
is the largest hospital in , located in the capital of Sana'a, immediately southwest of Ghumdan Palace. It is one of the largest building complexes in the city. This hospital may also be known as Al Thawra .

Mosque
Alansar Mosque is a mosque in Sana'a, . It lies to the southwest of Albolaily Mosque, and Sana'a Fish Market.

Sana’a

Latitude
15.3539° or 15° 21′ 14″ north
Longitude
44.2059° or 44° 12′ 21″ east
Population
1,530,000
Elevation
2,253 metres (7,392 feet)
IATA airport code
SAH
United Nations Location Code
YE SAH
Open location code
7H769634+G9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 258013552
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
71137
Wiki­data ID
Q2471
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Sana’a” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “San’a”
  • Achinese: “Shan’a’”
  • Adyghe: “Сана”
  • Afrikaans: “Sanaa”
  • Albanian: “Sana”
  • Amharic: “ሳና”
  • Arabic: “صنعاء”
  • Arabic: “صَنْعَاءُ”
  • Arabic: “مدينة سام”
  • Aragonese: “Sana”
  • Armenian: “Սանաա”
  • Asturian: “Sana’a”
  • Azerbaijani: “Səna”
  • Balinese: “Sanaa”
  • Bashkir: “Сана”
  • Basque: “Sana”
  • Basque: “Sanaa”
  • Belarusian: “Сана”
  • Bengali: “সানা”
  • Bosnian: “Sana’a”
  • Breton: “Sana’a”
  • Bulgarian: “Сана”
  • Catalan: “Sanà”
  • Catalan: “Sanaà”
  • Cebuano: “Sanaa”
  • Central Bikol: “Sanaʽa”
  • Central Kurdish: “سەنعا”
  • Chechen: “Сана”
  • Chinese: “Sana’a”
  • Chinese: “沙那”
  • Chinese: “萨那”
  • Chinese: “薩那”
  • Croatian: “Sana”
  • Czech: “San’á”
  • Czech: “Saná”
  • Danish: “Sanaá”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sana”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sena”
  • Dutch: “Sanaa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صنعا”
  • Esperanto: “Sanao”
  • Estonian: “Şan‘ā‘”
  • Estonian: “Şana‘ā‘”
  • Estonian: “Sanaa”
  • Fanti: “Sana’a Dadaw”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sana‘a”
  • Finnish: “Sanaa”
  • French: “Sanaa”
  • Galician: “Saná”
  • Georgian: “სანა”
  • German: “Sana’a”
  • German: “Sanaa”
  • Greek: “Σάνα”
  • Greek: “Σαναά”
  • Gujarati: “સાના”
  • Haitian: “Sanaa”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sana’a”
  • Hausa: “Sanaa”
  • Hebrew: “צנעא”
  • Hindi: “सना”
  • Hindi: “साना”
  • Hungarian: “Szanaa”
  • Icelandic: “Sana”
  • Ido: “Sanaa”
  • Iloko: “Sana’a”
  • Iloko: “Sanaa”
  • Inari Sami: “Sanaa”
  • Indonesian: “Sana’a”
  • Indonesian: “Sanaá”
  • Interlingue: “Saná”
  • Irish: “San’a”
  • Italian: “San’a‘”
  • Italian: “San’a”
  • Italian: “Sana’a”
  • Italian: “Sanaa”
  • Italian: “Ṣanʿā”
  • Italian: “Ṣanʿāʾ”
  • Japanese: “サナア”
  • Japanese: “サヌア”
  • Kabyle: “Ṣenɛa”
  • Kalaallisut: “Sana’a”
  • Kannada: “ಸನಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sano”
  • Kashmiri: “صنعاء”
  • Kazakh: “Сана қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Сана”
  • Kazakh: “Санаа қаласы”
  • Kikuyu: “Sana’a”
  • Kirghiz: “Сана”
  • Komering: “Sana’a”
  • Korean: “사나”
  • Kurdish: “Sana”
  • Kurdish: “Sanaa”
  • Latin: “Sana”
  • Latin: “Sanaa”
  • Latvian: “Sana”
  • Latvian: “Sanaa”
  • Ligurian: “Sanaa”
  • Literary Chinese: “薩那”
  • Lithuanian: “Sana”
  • Lithuanian: “Sanaa”
  • Livvi: “Sana”
  • Lombard: “San’a”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sanaa”
  • Macedonian: “Сана”
  • Maithili: “साना”
  • Malagasy: “Sana’a”
  • Malay: “Sana’a”
  • Malay: “Sanaa”
  • Malayalam: “സന”
  • Maltese: “Sana’a”
  • Maltese: “Sana”
  • Maltese: “Sanaa”
  • Marathi: “साना”
  • Mazanderani: “سه‌نئآ”
  • Mazanderani: “صنعا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sana’a”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sana’a”
  • Minangkabau: “Sana’a”
  • Mingrelian: “სანა”
  • Mongolian: “Санаа хот”
  • Mongolian: “Санаа”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “صنعاء”
  • Mossi: “San’a”
  • Mossi: “Sanaa”
  • Mossi: “ʾAmānat al-ʿĀṣima”
  • Navajo: “Bis Bee Kin Łání”
  • Nepali: “साना”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sanaa”
  • Northern Luri: “صنعا”
  • Northern Sami: “Sanaa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “San’a”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sana’a”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sanaa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sanaá”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “San’a”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sana”
  • Norwegian: “Sana”
  • Norwegian: “Sanaá”
  • Novial: “Sana”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sanaa”
  • Ossetian: “Санæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਨਾ”
  • Papiamento: “San’a”
  • Persian: “صنعا”
  • Persian: “صنعاء”
  • Piemontese: “San’a”
  • Polish: “Sana”
  • Polish: “Sanaa”
  • Portuguese: “Sana”
  • Portuguese: “Saná”
  • Portuguese: “Sanaa”
  • Pushto: “صنعا”
  • Quechua: “Sana’a”
  • Romanian: “Sana’a”
  • Russia Buriat: “Сана”
  • Russian: “Сана”
  • Russian: “Санаа”
  • Sardinian: “Sana’a”
  • Scots: “Sana’a”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ṣan’ā‘”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ṣan’ā’”
  • Serbian: “Сана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sana”
  • Shona: “Sana’a”
  • Sicilian: “Sanaa”
  • Silesian: “Sana”
  • Sindhi: “صنعاء”
  • Sinhala: “සැනා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Sanaa”
  • Slovak: “Saná”
  • Slovak: “Sanaá”
  • Slovenian: “Sana”
  • Somali: “Sana’a”
  • Somali: “Sanca”
  • South Azerbaijani: “صنعا”
  • Spanish: “Sana”
  • Spanish: “Saná”
  • Spanish: “Sanaá”
  • Swahili: “Sana’a”
  • Swedish: “Sana”
  • Swedish: “Sanaa”
  • Tagalog: “Sanaa”
  • Tajik: “Сана”
  • Tajik: “Санъо”
  • Talysh: “Sana”
  • Tamil: “சனா ‘அ”
  • Tamil: “சனா”
  • Tamil: “சன்ஆ”
  • Tamil: “ஸனா ஆ”
  • Tatar: “Сәнга”
  • Telugu: “సనా”
  • Thai: “ซานา”
  • Tibetan: “ས་ནཱ།”
  • Turkish: “San’a”
  • Turkish: “Sana’a”
  • Turkish: “Sana”
  • Turkmen: “Sana”
  • Twi: “Sanaa”
  • Udmurt: “Сана”
  • Uighur: “سەنئا”
  • Ukrainian: “Сана”
  • Urdu: “صنعاء”
  • Uzbek: “Sano”
  • Uzbek: “Sanʼo”
  • Venetian: “Sana’a”
  • Veps: “Sanaa”
  • Vietnamese: “Sana’a”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sana’a”
  • Welsh: “Sana’a”
  • Western Frisian: “Sana’a”
  • Western Panjabi: “صنعا”
  • Western Panjabi: “صنعاء”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨那”
  • Yiddish: “סאנא”
  • Yoruba: “Sana’a”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩那”
  • Zulu: “i-Sanaa”
  • “Sanā”
  • “صنعاء”

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