Yemeni Coastal Plains
The Yemeni Coastal Plains are the often-narrow strip of land between the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, and the Yemeni Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Aden and Al Hudayda.
Aden
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Aden is a city in the Yemeni Coastal Plains, on the Gulf of Aden at the southern end of the Red Sea.
Al Hudayda
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Al Hudayda is a city in Yemen with a population of 402,560. It is the principal port of Yemen on the Red Sea coast. Tourism is not a big industry, so there are relatively few facilities for visitors.
Zabid
Zabid is a city in Coastal Plains of Yemen, west of the country, near the Red Sea Coast. It is one of the oldest towns in Yemen, and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.
Yemeni Coastal Plains
- Type: governorate of Yemen with 835,000 residents
- Description: governorate of Yemen
- Also known as: “‘Adan”, “‘Adan Governorate”, “Aden”, “Aden Governorate”, “Aden Municipality”, “Al Muḩāfaz̧ah al Ūlá”, “Baladīyat ‘Adan”, “First Governorate”, “Governorate Number One”, “I”, and “Muḩāfaz̧at ‘Adan”
- Location: Yemen, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
12.9° or 12° 54′ northLongitude of center
44.9167° or 44° 55′ 0″ eastPopulation
835,000Wikidata ID
Q275729
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Yemeni Coastal Plains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عدن”
- Arabic: “محافظة عدن”
- Azerbaijani: “Aden mühafazası”
- Azerbaijani: “Ədən mühafəzəsi”
- Basque: “‘Adan gobernantzia”
- Basque: “’Adan gobernantzia”
- Bavarian: “Gouvernement Adan”
- Bengali: “এডেন গভর্নরেট”
- Bulgarian: “Аден”
- Catalan: “Governació d’Adan”
- Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at ‘Adan”
- Chinese: “Aden Séng”
- Chinese: “亚丁省”
- Chinese: “亞丁省”
- Chinese: “海岸平原”
- Croatian: “Adan”
- Dutch: “Aden”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Adeno”
- Finnish: “Aden”
- French: “Aden”
- French: “Gouvernorat d’Aden”
- Galician: “gobernación de Adén”
- Georgian: “ადენი”
- Georgian: “ადენის მუჰაფაზა”
- German: “Aden und Dependenzen”
- German: “Gouvernement ʿAdan”
- German: “YE-AD”
- German: “ʿAdan”
- Hebrew: “עדן”
- Hindi: “अदन प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Áden kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran ‘Adan”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran ’Adan”
- Italian: “governatorato di ‘Adan”
- Italian: “Governatorato di ’Adan”
- Italian: “Pianure costiere yemenite”
- Japanese: “アデン県”
- Korean: “아덴주”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Aden”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aden Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “‘Adan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aden guvernement”
- Norwegian: “’Adan”
- Persian: “استان عدن”
- Persian: “دشتهای ساحلی یمن”
- Polish: “‘Adan”
- Polish: “Aden”
- Portuguese: “‘Adan”
- Portuguese: “Adem”
- Portuguese: “Áden”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul ‘Adan”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul ’Adan”
- Russian: “Аден”
- Scots: “‘Adan Govrenorate”
- Scots: “’Adan Govrenorate”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Adan”
- Slovak: “provincia Aden”
- Slovenian: “Adenski guvernat”
- Slovenian: “Guvernat Aden”
- Slovenian: “YE-AD”
- South Azerbaijani: “عدن اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Gobernacion de ‘Adan”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Adén”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya ‘Adan”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Adan”
- Swedish: “Aden”
- Swedish: “Muhafazat Adan”
- Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการเอเดน”
- Turkish: “Aden ili”
- Turkish: “Aden”
- Ukrainian: “Аден”
- Urdu: “محافظہ عدن”
- Wu Chinese: “亚丁省”
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