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Yemen
Location marker · geographic overview
15° N / 48° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Sana'a
- Population
- 40,583,164 2024
- Area
- 527,968 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Arabic
- Currency
- Yemeni rial (YER)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Yemen
Yemen (Arabic: ٱلْيَمَن) is a country in the southern Arabian Peninsula of the Middle East.
Landscape & landmarks
Sana'a: Babel Yemen (old city), Wadi Dhar (Dar al-Hadschar Palace—also known as the rock house). Sana'a is at over 2,200 metres (7,200 feet) in elevation. The old city is a mystical and amazing place and also a UNESCO World Heritage site. The streets are alive and bustling around gingerbead-like houses several stories high, one of the oldest cities in the world.Read the see section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-20. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
A few more connections
- National anthem source-listed
- National anthem of Yemen Wikidata record ↗
Cited reference ↗
Wikidata, CC0 1.0. Source-matched, not independently certified. Observation year unavailable; retrieved 2026-09-27.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Western Asia
- Calling code
- +967
- Internet domain
- .ye
- Land border codes
- OMN, SAU
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .ye. Source ↗
- The source lists sunday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.