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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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Sana’a and Aden.

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Sana'a is the capital of Yemen, 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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is a city in the , on the Gulf of at the southern end of the Red Sea.

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is an archipelago consisting mainly of four main islands and two smaller rocky islets in the , an offshore territory of Yemen, near the .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Yemeni Mountains and Yemeni Coastal Plains.

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The are the rugged region between and the inland, forming an "L" following the shape of the coastline.

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The are the often-narrow strip of land between the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, and the .

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Yemen is located in West Asia, at the southern tip of the , between and . It is situated at the entrance to the Strait, which links the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and is one of the most active and strategic shipping lanes in the world.
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Yemen

Latitude of center
15.75° or 15° 45′ north
Longitude of center
47.9° or 47° 54′ east
Population
24,200,000
Area
527,970 km² (203,850 miles²)
Elevation
1,421 metres (4,662 feet)
Capital
Sanaa
Currency
Rial (YER)
Phone code
.ye
Internet domain
967
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: “Yèmen”
  • Arpitan: “Yèmèn”
  • Assamese: “য়েমেন”
  • Asturian: “Yeme”
  • Asturian: “Yemen”
  • Atayal: “Yemen”
  • Avaric: “Йаман”
  • Awadhi: “गणतन्त्र यमन”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yemen”
  • 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: “Yemen”
  • Central Bikol: “Yemen”
  • Central Kurdish: “یەمەن”
  • Chavacano: “Yemen”
  • Chechen: “Йаман”
  • Chechen: “Йемен”
  • Chinese: “Yemen”
  • 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”
  • Dutch: “YE”
  • Dutch: “YEM”
  • Dzongkha: “ཡེ་མེན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Йемен”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اليمن”
  • Esperanto: “Jemeno”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Jemeno”
  • Esperanto: “ye”
  • Esperanto: “YEM”
  • 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: “YE”
  • 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: “यॅमॅन”
  • Goan Konkani: “येमेन”
  • Greek: “Υεμένη”
  • Guarani: “Jemẽ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Yémen”
  • Gujarati: “યમન”
  • 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: “ಯಮನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಯೆಮನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಯೆಮೆನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “YEM”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yemen Respublikası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yemen”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Йемен Республикасы”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Йемен”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Йемен”
  • Kashmiri: “یَمَن”
  • Kashubian: “Jemen”
  • Kazakh: “Йемен Республикасы”
  • Kazakh: “Йемен”
  • Khmer: “យេម៉ែន”
  • Kikuyu: “Yemen”
  • Kikuyu: “Yemeni”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Yemeni”
  • Kirghiz: “Йемен”
  • Komering: “Yaman”
  • Komi: “Йемен”
  • Kongo: “Republic of Yemen”
  • Kongo: “Yemen”
  • Korean: “YE”
  • Korean: “YEM”
  • Korean: “예멘 공화국”
  • Korean: “예멘”
  • Kurdish: “Yemen”
  • Kurdish: “یەمەن”
  • Ladin: “Iemen”
  • Ladino: “Teman”
  • Ladino: “Yemen”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Manx: “Yn Yeaman”
  • Maori: “Īemene”
  • 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: “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: “ୟେମନ”
  • Oriya: “ୟେମେନ”
  • Oriya: “ୟେମେନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Yaman”
  • Ossetian: “Йемен”
  • Pali: “यमन”
  • Pampanga: “Yemen”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਮਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Yemen”
  • Persian: “یمن”
  • Piemontese: “Yemen”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Yemen”
  • Polish: “Jemen”
  • Portuguese: “Iemen”
  • Portuguese: “Iémen”
  • Portuguese: “Iêmen”
  • Portuguese: “Iémene”
  • Portuguese: “Iêmene”
  • Pushto: “يمن”
  • Pushto: “یمن”
  • Quechua: “Yaman”
  • Quechua: “Yemen”
  • Romanian: “Yemen”
  • Romansh: “Jemen”
  • Rundi: “Yemeni”
  • Russia Buriat: “Йемен”
  • Russian: “аль-Джумхурийя аль-Йаманийя”
  • Russian: “Иемен”
  • 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”
  • Slovenian: “YEM”
  • Somali: “Yaman”
  • Somali: “Yemen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یمن”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Yemen”
  • 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: “Yemen”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥕᥥᥱ ᥛᥦᥢᥱ”
  • Tajik: “Яман”
  • Talysh: “Jəmən”
  • Talysh: “Yəmən”
  • Tamil: “ஏமன்”
  • Tamil: “யெமன்”
  • Taroko: “Yemen”
  • Tatar: “Йәмән”
  • Telugu: “యెమన్”
  • Telugu: “యెమెన్”
  • Tetum: “Iemen”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเยเมน”
  • Thai: “เยเมน”
  • Tibetan: “ཡེ་མེན།”
  • Tigrinya: “የመን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Yemen”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻIemeni”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Iemeni”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Jemen”
  • Tumbuka: “Yemen”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “اليمن”
  • Turkish: “ye”
  • Turkish: “YEM”
  • 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”
  • Vietnamese: “Yemen”
  • 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: “也門”
  • Wu Chinese: “也门”
  • Yakut: “Йиэмэн”
  • Yiddish: “תימן”
  • Yoruba: “Yemen”
  • Yoruba: “Yemeni”
  • Yue Chinese: “也門”
  • Zeeuws: “Jeem’n”
  • Zeeuws: “Jeêm’n”
  • Zhuang: “Yemen”
  • Zulu: “i-Yemen”
  • Zulu: “IYemen”
  • “Jeemen”
  • “Jemens”
  • “ma Jamanija”
  • “YE”
  • “YEM”
  • “Yemen”
  • “यमन”

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