Socotra's plants are a third endemic, and Shibam's mud-brick towers are called the Manhattan of the desert.
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Yemen
Republic of Yemen ยท ุงููู
ู
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
527.97Kkmยฒ of land
$774GDP / person
SanaaCapital
- ISO codes
- YE ยท YEM
- Density
- 55 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Yemeni rial (YER)
- Dial code
- +967
- Internet domain
- .ye
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 15.3280ยฐ N, 45.8740ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Yemeni
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $22.58B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Yemen stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
48th
of 242 ยท 0.38% of world population
Land area
51st
of 242 ยท 0.35% of world land
GDP per person
221st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
147th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Yemen
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 29,161,922 people, the 48th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.38 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 527,968 kmยฒ, making it the 51st largest country here - about 5.7 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 55 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Sanaa, at 15.36ยฐ N, 44.20ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 2,008,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Aden.
The currency is the Yemeni rial (YER, symbol ๏ทผ).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Aden
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Sanaa
Amanat Al Asimah
15.3567ยฐ N, 44.2046ยฐ E
2.01M
2
Aden
`Adan
12.7797ยฐ N, 45.0095ยฐ E
1M
3
Taizz
Ta`izz
13.6064ยฐ N, 44.0375ยฐ E
751K
๐งญ Worth the trip
Socotra
Island
A third of its plants grow nowhere else, including dragon's blood trees shaped like upturned umbrellas.
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Yemen.