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Yemen



اليمن

العربية [1]اليمن - الجمهورية اليمنية

ليمن دولة تقع جنوب شبه الجزيرة العربية في جنوب غرب آسيا. يحدها من الشمال السعودية ومن الشرق عُمان. لها ساحل جنوبي على بحر العرب و الجمهورية اليمنيةساحل غربي على البحر الأحمر. كانت حتى عام 1990 تتشكل من دولتين عرفتا باسمي الجمهورية العربية اليمنية في الشمال وجمهورية اليمن الديمقراطية الشعبية في الجنوب.

English Yemen - Republic of Yemen

The Republic of Yemen is a Middle Eastern country located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. Yemen is composed of former North and South Yemen. It borders the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south, the Red Sea on the west, ► Oman to the northeast and the rest of the country borders ► Saudi Arabia. It has maritime borders with ► Eritrea, ► Djibouti and ► Somalia, esp. ► Somaliland. Its territory includes the remote island of Socotra, about 350 kilometres (217 mi) to the south off the coast of East Africa.


Short name  Yemen
Official name Republic of Yemen
Status Independent country since 1918, united since 1990
Location Middle East
Capital [2] صنعاء‎ (Sana)
Population 29,975,000 inhabitants
Area 527,968 square kilometres (203,850 sq mi)
Major languages Arabic (official)
Major religions Islam
More information Yemen, Geography of Yemen, History of Yemen and Politics of Yemen
More images Yemen - Yemen (Category).

General maps

Map of Yemen
Map of Yemen
Governorates of Yemen
Governorates of Yemen
Districts of Yemen

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Yemen, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Yemen.

Rub' al Khali or Empty Quarter (in German)
Rub' al Khali

History maps

Karib'il Watar's war against the kingdom of Awsan (about 685 or 450 BC)
Ancient Yemen 100 AD
Kingdom of Aksum
Aksum and surrounding countries
Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman
Age of the Caliphs
Caliphate around 750
The Seljuq Empire 1037-1194
Ayyubid rule in 1189
The Ayyubid Empire of Saladin around 1190
Growth of the Ottoman Empire
Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683
Location of South Yemen
Location of North Yemen
Federation of South Arabia
Protectorate of South Arabia
Divisions of South Yemen

Old maps

This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old. Image:Aden gulf 1860.jpg

Other maps

  Ethnic map

Notes and references

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  1. Romanization: al-Yaman - Al-Jumhūriyyah al-Yamaniyyah.
  2. Romanization: Ṣan‘ā’.

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