Yemen

Yemen is a country in the southern of the . 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.
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Yemen

  • Country with about 28,300,000 residents
  • …has Sanaa as its capital
  • …uses the Rial (YER)
  • …has the phone code 967
  • …uses the internet domain .ye
  • …covers 527,970 km² (203,850 miles²)
  • Description: country in West Asia
  • Also known as
    “Al Jumhūrīyah al Yamanīyah”
    “Al Yaman”
    “Arabia Felix / Arabia eudaímōn”
    “Rep. Yemen”
    “Republic of Yemen”
    “ye”
    “اليَمَن”
  • Language: Arabic
  • Neighbors
  • Categories
    sovereign state
    locality
  • Location
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Latitude of center
15.75° or 15° 45′ north
Longitude of center
47.9° or 47° 54′ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399459
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
69543
Wiki­data ID
Q805

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Yemen” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Иемен”
  • Achinese: “Yaman”
  • Adyghe: “Йемен”
  • Afrikaans: “Jemen”
  • Akan: “Yɛmen”
  • Albanian: “Jemen”
  • Albanian: “Jemeni”
  • Amharic: “የመን”
  • Amis: “Yemen”
  • Angika: “यमन”
  • Arabic: “الجمهورية اليمنية” (historical)
  • Arabic: “اليمن”
  • Arabic: “دولة اليمن”
  • Aragonese: “Yemen”
  • Armenian: “Եմեն”
  • Arpitan: “Yèmèn”
  • Assamese: “য়েমেন”
  • Asturian: “Yeme”
  • Asturian: “Yemen”
  • Atayal: “Yemen”
  • Avaric: “Йаман”
  • Awadhi: “गणतन्त्र यमन”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yəmən”
  • Balinese: “Yaman”
  • Bambara: “Yemɛni”
  • Bashkir: “Йәмән”
  • Bashkir: “Йемен”
  • Basque: “Yemen”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Yaman”
  • Bavarian: “Jemen”
  • Belarusian: “Емен”
  • Belarusian: “Емэн”
  • Belarusian: “Йемен”
  • Bengali: “ইমেন”
  • Bengali: “ইয়েমেন”
  • Bengali: “যুগ্ম রাষ্ট্র ইয়েমেন”
  • Betawi: “Yaman”
  • 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: “Yämän”
  • Cebuano: “Yemen”
  • Central Bikol: “Yemen”
  • Central Kurdish: “یەمەن”
  • Chavacano: “Yemen”
  • Chechen: “Йаман”
  • Chechen: “Йемен”
  • Chinese: “Yěmén”
  • 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”
  • Dzongkha: “ཡེ་མེན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Йемен”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اليمن”
  • Esperanto: “Jemeno”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Jemeno”
  • Esperanto: “ye”
  • Estonian: “Jeemen”
  • Estonian: “Jeemeni Vabariik”
  • Ewe: “Yemen nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Yemen”
  • Faroese: “Jemen”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Yemen”
  • Finnish: “Jemen”
  • Finnish: “Jemenin tasavalta”
  • French: “la République du Yémen”
  • French: “Yémen”
  • Fulah: “Yaman”
  • Fulah: “Yemen”
  • Gagauz: “Yemen”
  • Galician: “Iemen”
  • Galician: “O Iemen”
  • Ganda: “Yemeni”
  • Georgian: “იემენი”
  • German: “Jemen”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Yemen”
  • Gilaki: “یمن”
  • Goan Konkani: “Yemen”
  • Goan Konkani: “येमेन”
  • Greek: “Υεμένη”
  • Guarani: “Jemẽ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Yémen”
  • Gujarati: “યેમેન”
  • Haitian: “Yemèn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yemen”
  • Hausa: “Yamal”
  • Hausa: “Yemen”
  • Hawaiian: “Iemene”
  • Hebrew: “תימן”
  • Hindi: “यमन गणराज्य”
  • Hindi: “यमन”
  • Hungarian: “Jemen”
  • Hungarian: “Jemeni Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Jemen”
  • Ido: “Yemen”
  • Igbo: “Yemen”
  • Iloko: “Yemen”
  • Inari Sami: “Jemen täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Jemen”
  • Indonesian: “Yaman”
  • Interlingua: “Yemen”
  • Interlingue: “Yemen”
  • Irish: “Éimin”
  • Irish: “Poblacht 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”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Yaman”
  • Kalaallisut: “Jemen”
  • Kalaallisut: “Yemen”
  • Kalmyk: “Йеменмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಯೆಮೆನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yemen Respublikası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yemen”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Йемен Республикасы”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Йемен”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Йемен”
  • Karekare: “Yemen”
  • Kashmiri: “یَمَن”
  • Kashubian: “Jemen”
  • Kazakh: “Йемен Республикасы”
  • Kazakh: “Йемен”
  • Khmer: “យេម៉ែន”
  • Kikuyu: “Yemen”
  • Kikuyu: “Yemeni”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Yemeni”
  • Kirghiz: “Йемен”
  • Komering: “Yaman”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Йемен”
  • Komi: “Йемен”
  • Kongo: “Republic of Yemen”
  • Kongo: “Yemen”
  • Korean: “예멘 공화국”
  • Korean: “예멘”
  • Kurdish: “Yemen”
  • Kurdish: “یەمەن”
  • Ladin: “Iemen”
  • Ladino: “Teman”
  • Ladino: “Yemen”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເຢເມນ”
  • 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”
  • Magahi: “यमन गणराज्य”
  • Magahi: “यमन”
  • Maithili: “यमन”
  • Malagasy: “Iemena”
  • Malagasy: “Yemen”
  • Malay: “Yaman”
  • Malay: “يمن”
  • Malayalam: “യെമൻ”
  • Maltese: “il-Jemen”
  • Maltese: “Jemen”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Jemen”
  • Manipuri: “ꯌꯦꯃꯦꯟ”
  • Manx: “Yn Yeaman”
  • Maori: “Īemene”
  • Maori: “Īmene”
  • Marathi: “येमेन”
  • Marathi: “येमेनचे प्रजासत्ताक”
  • Mazanderani: “یمن”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “اليمن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Yemen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yemen”
  • Minangkabau: “Yaman”
  • Mingrelian: “იემენი”
  • Mirandese: “Iémen”
  • Moksha: “Емэн”
  • Mongolian: “Йемен”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليامان”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليمن”
  • Nauru: “Yemen”
  • Navajo: “Shádiʼááhjí Ásáí Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Yemen”
  • Nepali: “गणतन्त्र यमन”
  • Nepali: “येमेन”
  • Newari: “गणतन्त्र यमन”
  • North Ndebele: “Yemeni”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jemen”
  • Northern Luri: “یمن”
  • Northern Sami: “Jemen dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Jemen”
  • Northern Sami: “Jemena dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jemen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Jemen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jemen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Republikken Jemen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yemen”
  • Norwegian: “Jemen”
  • 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: “ୟେମେନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Yaman”
  • Ossetian: “Йемен”
  • Pali: “यमन”
  • Pampanga: “Yemen”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਮਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Yemen”
  • Persian: “یمن”
  • Piemontese: “Yemen”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Yemen”
  • Polish: “Jemen”
  • Portuguese: “Iêmen”
  • Portuguese: “Iémene”
  • Pushto: “يمن”
  • Pushto: “یمن”
  • Quechua: “Yaman”
  • Quechua: “Yemen”
  • Romanian: “Yemen”
  • Romansh: “Jemen”
  • Rundi: “Yemeni”
  • Russia Buriat: “Йемен”
  • Russian: “аль-Джумхурийя аль-Йаманийя”
  • Russian: “Йемен”
  • Russian: “Йеменская Республика”
  • 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 tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Jemeeʹn”
  • Slovak: “Jemen”
  • Slovak: “Jemenská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Jemen”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Jemen”
  • Slovenian: “ye”
  • Somali: “Yaman”
  • Somali: “Yemen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یمن”
  • 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: “Yëmën”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥕᥥᥱ ᥛᥦᥢᥱ”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Яман”
  • Tajik: “Яман”
  • Talysh: “Jəmən”
  • Talysh: “Yəmən”
  • Tamil: “ஏமன்”
  • Tamil: “யெமன்”
  • Taroko: “Yemen”
  • Tatar: “Йәмән”
  • Telugu: “యెమెన్”
  • Tetum: “Iemen”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเยเมน”
  • Thai: “เยเมน”
  • Tibetan: “ཡེ་མེན།”
  • Tigre: “የመን”
  • Tigrinya: “የመን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Yemen”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Iemeni”
  • Tulu: “ಯೆಮನ್”
  • Tumbuka: “Yemen”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “اليمن”
  • Turkish: “ye”
  • Turkish: “Yemen Cum.”
  • Turkish: “Yemen Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Yemen”
  • 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”
  • 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: “Jeêm’n”
  • Zhuang: “Yemen”
  • Zulu: “IYemen”
  • “ma Jaman”
  • “ma Jamanija”
  • “YEM”

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