Yemen

Official name	Republic of Yemen
Name in local language	الجمهورية اليمنية ; Al-Jumhuriyah al-Yamaniyah (ar)
Continent	Asia
Subcontinent	Western Asia
Population (ranking: 42e)	34,232,322 inhabitants (2018)
Population growth	2.60 % / year
Area	527,968 km²
Density	64.84 inhabitants / km²
GDP (ranking: 108e)	26.914 billions $USD (2018)
GDP/capita (ranking)	944 $USD (2018)
GDP growth	-2.70 % / year (2018)
Life expectancy (ranking)	65.50 years (2016)
Birth rate	28.40 ‰ (2017)
Fertility rate	3.63 children / woman (2017)
Death rate (ranking)	6.00 ‰ (2017)
Infant mortality rate (ranking)	47.40 ‰ (2017)
Literacy rate	70.07 % (2015)
Official languages	Arabic
Currency	Yemeni rial (YER)
HDI (ranking: 215e)	0.463 / 1 (2018)
EPI (ranking)	49.79 (2016)
Government	Republic (Provisional governments)
Head of State	President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (Aden) ; President of the Supreme Political Council Mahdi al-Mashat (Houthi, Sana'a)
National Day	12 May (reunification of the two Yemen in 1990)
ISO Codes	YE, YEM
Demonym	Yemeni, Yemenite
Tourists (ranking)	367,000 people (2015)

Yemen is an Arab country located at the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. The country has a long land border with Saudi Arabia to the north, with Oman to the northeast, and a maritime border with Djibouti and Eritrea to the west, and Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland to the south. It has an important coastline on the Gulf of Aden, a smaller one on the Red Sea, and controls with Djibouti the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb which leads to the Suez Canal. Its capital, Sanaa, lies to the west of the country, in the mountains (2260 meters above sea level) and its main port is Aden (former capital of South Yemen).

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Urban areas (2015)

Urban areas	Population
Sanaa Maps:  Sanaa – routière Sanaa – satellite	2,957,392 inhabitants
Aden Maps:  Aden Aden – region Aden – road map Aden – satellite Aden – satellite	1,760,923 inhabitants
Taiz Maps:  Taiz – satellite Taiz – road map	1,615,222 inhabitants
Al Hudaydah Maps:  Al Hudaydah – satellite Al Hudaydah – routière	714,523 inhabitants
Mukalla Maps:  Mukalla – satellite Mukalla – road map	531,205 inhabitants
Ibb	292,428 inhabitants
Dhamar	198,040 inhabitants

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Administrative divisions

Governorates (Muhafazat)	Population	Area
'Amran	1,123,651 inhabitants	9,587 km²
Abyan	658,824 inhabitants	21,939 km²
Ad Dali'	602,613 inhabitants	4,786 km²
Aden	1,087,653 inhabitants	1,114 km²
Al Bayda'	835,683 inhabitants	11,193 km²
Al Hudaydah	3,774,914 inhabitants	17,509 km²
Al Jawf	663,147 inhabitants	30,620 km²
Al-Mahrah	400,000 inhabitants	122,500 km²
Al-Mahwit	732,360 inhabitants	2,858 km²
Amanat Al-Asemah (Municipalité de Sanaa)	1,174,767 inhabitants	126 km²
Dhamar	1,697,067 inhabitants	10,495 km²
Hadhramaout	1,368,085 inhabitants	193,032 km²
Hajjah	1,887,213 inhabitants	10,141 km²
Ibb	3,911,070 inhabitants	6,484 km²
Lahij	926,291 inhabitants	15,210 km²
Ma'rib	504,696 inhabitants	20,023 km²
Raymah	502,505 inhabitants	3,442 km²
Sa'dah	987,663 inhabitants	15,022 km²
Sanaa	2,279,665 inhabitants	15,052 km²
Shabwah	651,509 inhabitants	47,728 km²
Socotra	59,293 inhabitants	3,796 km²
Ta'izz	4,554,443 inhabitants	12,605 km²

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See also

• Wikipedia - Yemen