Yemen Country Info - Asia

Description and Basic Information

Yemen with its capital San‘a’ is located in Asia (Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea). It covers some 527,971 square kilometres (slightly larger than twice the size of Wyoming) with 23,013,000 citizens. Arabic is the language used in Yemen. It is charing borders with Saudi Arabia and Oman.

Travel to Yemen is strongly discouraged due to a state of severe political crisis, as well as a very high threat of terrorist attacks, abductions, tribal violence and general lawlessness. Terrorist groups actively target tourist groups, with targeted suicide bombings and armed ambushes occurring yearly since 2007.

Pictures from Capital (San‘a’)

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About Yemen

The topography features narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains with dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula. The average density of population is about 43 per km². The climate in Yemen can be described as mostly desert with hot and humid along west coast, temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon, extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east. Potential natural disasters are sandstorms and dust storms in summer.

To reach someone in Yemen dial +967 prior to a number. There are 997,000 installed telephones. And there are 8,313,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".ye". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz. The following list are the 21 regions/states in Yemen we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Yemeni population grew at a rate of 2.71% (or by 637,429 citizens). With 170,106 deaths and 807,536 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 2.71%. 0 persons more in total immigrated to the country than emmigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Yemen: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.