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Practice Yemen

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Yemen

YE / YEM   15.5°, 48.0°

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People are called
Yemeni
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+967
Capital
Sanaa, Aden
Population
28,250,420
Area
455,503 km2
Climate
Desert or arid
Government
In transition
Currency
Yemeni Rial
Languages
Arabic
Sells
gold, fish, scrap iron, shellfish
Sells to
UAE 28%, India 21%, Saudi Arabia 17%
Land borders
2: Oman, Saudi Arabia
Drives on the
right
Calling code
+967
Founded
1990
Hemisphere
Northern

WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED

Yemeni

These are English demonyms for people from Yemen. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.

Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)

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SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS

Civilizations, flags & standards

Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.

A sourced civilization and flag trail has not been added for Yemen yet. No ancient flag is inferred from the modern one.

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Turning points

A curated timeline is not available yet. Explore the country's history and the historical figures below.

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Religion: state & society

An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.

Official status and a dated affiliation breakdown have not been checked for this country. The atlas's religion tags are not a population ranking.

BEYOND THE MAP

Yemen in the study desk

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Where it is

Languages

Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.

Arabicofficial
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Largest cities

Sanaa  capital 1,937,451
Aden 1,079,670
Taiz 940,600
Ibb 771,514
Al Ḩudaydah 734,699

Wars and conflicts

Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.

Form of government

In transition.

Climate and geography

mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east

Northern hemisphere.

Land borders (2)

Figures from its history

Ali Abdullah Saleh
Ali Abdullah Saleh President, 1978-2012 Ali Abdullah Saleh was a Yemeni military officer and politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Yemen from the Yemeni unification in 1990 until his resignation in 2012, following the Yemeni revolution.
Queen of Sheba
Queen of Sheba Ruler of the ancient Sabaean kingdom The Queen of Sheba, named Bilqis in Arabic and Makeda in Geʽez, is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

Checked facts

Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.

  • Continents — Seven-continent model. A country spanning two continents is filed under the one containing its capital; the other is accepted too.
    The imported list was unordered and included overseas territory, so its first entry was not the continent the country is in.
    Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11